Received offer for Principal Engineer position at WalmartLabs on Wednesday. I have other offers from Amazon, Yelp, Groupon, Kohl's Work is good in the research domain in Walmart, so considering it. This is one of the RnD team in Sunnyvale. (AR/VR related work) Primarily considering WalmartLabs for the work its offering. So what is the culture at WalmartLabs? Additional Info: Project work in Amazon is that of developing ML pipelines for one part of their main People team, Yelp is about developing deep learning based solution for fraud review detection, Kohl's is about chatbot project and Groupon is about personalization project. I was happy with overall process at WalmartLabs but after meeting a CEO (one of many) I was little concerned about work life balance, and buerocracy - they presented aggressive timeline and communication seemed a little off as C-level executive seemed technically rich but little less precise of exact vision they have. WalmartLabs project is about AR/VR related system development) Anyone working at WalmartLabs please let me know about the culture. TC almost same from everyone.
Senior position = Walmart greeter 😃
Senior Stocking Associate
😂...Senior Valet Parking Manager. Anyways put one title for sake of it. I have edited the post.
Bro, there’s only 1 FAANG company in your list. I am pretty sure you know which one to pick. Also, walmart?? Really??
Those all sound like awesome work/team, grats on offers.
Thanks!
Is it an L6 role at Amazon? If yes, clearly you should pick Amazon L6. Congrats btw.
Thanks! "Clearly you should pick Amazon L6" - sorry it is not clear to me. Like why??? Project wise the one at Amazon doesnt excite me. Any other reason? "Its FAANG!" "Its pays so much" "Its Amazon! Are you an idiot?" Please dont reply any of the above fashion. Because I am getting paid eqally great anywhere I join (yes that includea stock related money too) Please tell me with respect to things like: culture (I found Amazon culture equally dicey - hard deadlines and stress work, no free food or similar perks, and most importantly the work or the project itself) You could also tell me why you think Amazon is clear choice for any other reason you can think of other than brandname and money. (I got both these covered - brandname doesnt work beyond a point, what exact project you did and your actual contribution will make difference) I am asking genuinely, please dont take this in wrong way. Please let me know why you think Amazon is a clear choice. Thanks!
Once you get to a "standard" position at a FANG (Amazon L5, Google L5, Microsoft L63, etc), you have a certification of sorts. People know you are capable of building performant, scalable software from scratch. Personally I'm not very excited about this particular Walmart role over Amazon - "AR/VR" is unlikely to be an important part of their business anytime soon. Companies dangle juicy carrots to hire great candidates - I'm not sure if AR/VR is a carrot.
Ex Walmart here Culture is really very political You need to be in good books of your manager and be always show off even if you don’t work Just remember manage up is the only way and too much mess to deal with
Thank You! I was looking for help and found in your comment. Thanks for that! Intuit has great culture so good to know you are there.
Back in the day WalmartLabs was great. Not anymore. There is no more “labs.” It is just branding.
Dude, do you really want to carry pocket change for the soda machine? Walmart is like working in corporate - water and stale coffee are free, the rest is BYO.
Can't say about the Bay Area offices, but the Reston office is stocked with free soda and snacks. That's not standard at Amazon (although some teams provide it out of their budget). Either way I never understood why it's important to people. How much can you possibly spend on snacks in a year? $1-2k?
The culture isn't great if you are looking for aggressive growth, but it also doesn't have the downside associated with that. Flexible work from home policy maybe important for you if family life is a priority.
😂.. My bad...I didnt say the position because that would give away too much information. Lets say in Amazon language, architect level position.