Expedia India vs Walmart Labs India

Nov 6, 2019 35 Comments

I am evaluating two competing offers from Expedia Gurgaon (counter-offer) and Walmart Labs in Bangalore. The money on offer is similar. I am wondering which one is a better company in terms of work culture and benefits.

I have heard that WML India really gets projects "dumped" by the US org. Is that true?

Current TC: 65 L
YoE: 13
Raise offered: 25% on both sides. WML includes RSU while Expedia is mostly hard cash.

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  • Microsoft / R&D
    ^^^

    Go to company page Microsoft R&D

    ^^^
    Your choice is simple. Traffic or pollution?
    Nov 6, 2019 0
  • Walmart
    p31027

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    p31027
    What you've heard is true. Domain is king in Walmart Labs, not tech. I worked there for 2 years and didn't find any engineering best practices there. They're okay if you push buggy code to production and support day and night. They assign a project and give you 3-6 months to push to production and you are evaluated based on that, so people are in a hurry to code something and just deploy. Lot of the managers are there to advance thier own careers by making the team overwork/micromanage, rest are there to retire. They are on a mass hiring spree and the culture is messed up. Hikes are substandard and they have forced stack ranking ( you might ask why implement this and overhire as well.. no one knows), lot of politics. Most of them are leaving or planning to leave. Very high attrition. Some teams are good though, but i wouldn't recommend it since it's quite risky. If you had asked the same question a couple of years back, i would have said Walmart Labs, but not anymore. Because you know, times change :)
    Nov 6, 2019 3
  • Expedia India for sure
    Nov 6, 2019 8
  • Apple
    KGHP41

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    KGHP41
    TC or GTFO
    Nov 6, 2019 0
  • i am not sure how Expedia is getting impacted because of covid , but most of travel companies are impacted because of covid , and continue to be impacted for 2021. so think in that direction too
    Jan 13, 2021 0