Walmart Software Engineer reviews

4.1

86% would recommend to a friend

(482 total reviews)
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John Furner

100% approve of CEO

72% positive business outlook

Software Engineer ||| employees have rated Walmart with 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 482 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Engineer ||| professionals have an excellent working experience there. Walmart is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Engineer ||| professionals compared to other employers within the Commerce de détail et de gros industry (3.5 stars).

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482 reviews
2.0
Feb 2, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

*Great work life balance *Competitive compensation

Cons

*Lack of culture. No holiday party at the end of year. Instead, a holiday lunch was hold at one of the conference room with food taste like panda express. *Stingy all the time. For example, a baseball game outing was hosted at AT&T park, which was nice, but no shuttle was arranged. * Lack of parking. Only 70% of full time employees could get parking permits at Sunnyvale office and the permits were distributed based on how long you've worked at WalmartLabs. For others, figure it out by yourself. New hires, contractors and people commute to San Bruno office are asked to park on street(very limited space) or a public parking lot with 20mins walking distance. *Food is not subsidized. Food in cafeteria is terrible, edible though. *Less holiday compared to other companies. We need to work on Martin Luther King's day and President's day while others are on vacation. Let alone thanksgiving which did not offer an extra day off. * Lack of communication. Many people do not know what they are doing for work. * People are not passionate about their work. * Policy is not transparent. 200 people (almost 10%) are laid off recently without telling everyone the decision criteria.

4.0
Jan 29, 2017

Best place to work

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

work life balance is awesome. You will get sufficient time to technically develop yourself.

Cons

people don't know as much as they brag about specific skillset or knowledge.

2.0
Jan 4, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good teammates, projects, pay structure

Cons

- NO PARKING ON CAMPUS!! (They expect employees to find public/street parking nearby and walk almost a mile to reach work. The way we found about is by parking tickets, no internal communication was provided about the new rules). What kind of workplace is that? - DELIBERATE DELAY IN INTERNAL GREEN CARD application process by immigration team. Every little thing (wage determination, ETA filing, etc takes almost triple the time it used to take a year ago) - ANNOUNCING REMOVAL OF INTERNAL FEEDBACK FORUM with very little notice. Multiple people have expressed support against the removal as no alternate channel was provided. - A few other cons include: No 401k match/orthodontic coverage in the first 1 year, sub-standard free Friday lunch, only 6 holidays per year (only 5 since most work on Thanksgiving), horrible middle management

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