Why Walmart reputation as tech company is not good?
Apr 19, 2020
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I see so many posts where people are quoting it as average tech company. Considering scale, there should be good complex challenges to solve? Where is the gap?
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let me tell what actually equals tech reputation: it starts with T and ends with C.
- worse pay
- worse perks and benefit
- the legacy stores Bentonville culture permeates, everyday low prices = you don’t get shit cause our margins are shit
- growth / innovation via acquisition leading to high turn over, high culture clash, duplication of effort
- as with any large organization, but especially for Walmart there is just so much leadership churn and so you’re team / director is realigning metrics every 4 months
- lack of diversity, All Indian and East Asian engineers (this isn’t the worse thing, but when 95% of the company is like that the culture is a bit of a turn off)
The average person is great and smart, but when you look at a FAANG the sum is greater than the parts, but at Walmart did not think it was the case. Low margin business means people have to be cheap so you don’t see all the pay and benefits you see at FAANG.
And these companies do match/exceed comp for the right candidate.