I’ve interviewed for countless positions at Walmart and Sam’s club, all director level positions. I’ve been offered 3 positions, all declined. Walmart doesn’t offer pay transparency, they want you to complete case studies & several interviews all for bs compensation. How are you the #1 Fortune 500 and refuse to pay top dollar like your competitors? You cannot get top tier talent from FAANG and try to pay a level down.
What was the offer? Can you provide details including a split of sign on, base, rsu etc
No sign-on, $130k-$150k, rsus were 35k a year
Are you in tech? This base is low for even for project managers, and the RSU is unheard of for the director position.
Sorry to hear this, OP. Here’s hoping you get the TC you deserve soon. TC: 105K P.S- How were the case studies for the positions you went out for? I’ve had to do take-home assignments and I’ve almost always rejected them due to the labor involved and exploitation of free work.
Thanks! I found something else ☺️! And I did well for all case studies except for the first.
Did you set your salary expectations upfront?
Yeppppp
It’s Fortune 1 without top talent. Think what it would be with such top talents! Jokes aside, what do you mean by not being transparent in pay? You should know all the details of comp. The only missing part probably is vesting schedule.
They’re not as forth coming and stated a range, didn’t go into detail until salary negotiations
You are right. Walmart did not tell me the range until the offer stage as well. You still could have asked if you needed clarification. In big tech, it is usually communicated way earlier, though. I wish we adopt such nice things…
I interviewed with them and they were very transparent with pay, rsu and bonus on first HR conversation. They are not a tech company but a retail company so you will not see the same pay scales as a Meta. Where I do agree with you is that their hiring process is a joke. I went through 4-5 rounds with them and as they went through the recent levels reset ghosted after. Having to redo job req etc etc. I ended up taking another offer but their process was not a good sign for me, especially since I was expected to build a small team and hire people with same process.
Yeah, the process is unnecessarily complicated
I have heard from managers in Walmart that the recruiters have a defined salary which is not very high (they do not get any commission for getting any people in) so that’s why it’s common that recruiters just ghost you, or do not try that much to get you in.
If Walmart wants external talent, they need to do better by their process and applicants/candidates
Not sure what role you applied for (engineering, product, etc) or level (x4, x5, etc) but fwiw my direct x5 *engineering* reports comfortably make $300k+
Supply chain, so it’s not the same scale that we’re looking at here lol
Oh gotcha, what level though?
Not sure which location but e-commerce/global tech should easily beat 300k even in bentonville for x7.
In CA or NY? The people there should make that and then some, cost of living is high there. And they were cheap for bentonville location
For x7 in Sunnyvale/San Bruno ca or Hoboken nj you should hit 500k tc at the minimum
Walmart is one of the companies you can get into if you know people higher up. Worst practice
Yeah, I’m no longer interested in the company lol
TC and YOE?
My YOE is 8, TC is $300k