Walmart reviews

3.4

55% would recommend to a friend

(142,061 total reviews)
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John Furner

60% approve of CEO

51% positive business outlook

Walmart has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 142,061 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Walmart employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Commerce de détail et de gros industry (3.5 stars).

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142K reviews
1.0
Dec 13, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Only fact that this is one of the biggest retailers and it s fun to be part of such an organization where small changes bring big impact

Cons

Very very bad work culture, no work-life balance. Managers and leadership not matured enough to handle individuals. No diversity of people. Too much of politics. Exploitation of individual's legal status and dependencies .

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Walmart Response
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Thanks for taking the time to leave us a review. It's disappointing to hear you haven't had a positive experience with the culture or work-life balance, among the other things you've mentioned. Culture is important to us, and that's why we're growing our People Experience (PX) team who are dedicated to creating an inclusive culture and providing our associates with delightful experiences at work. Your feedback will be shared with the team, so we can improve. If you have any concerns regarding discrimination or exploitation, you can contact Walmart Global Ethics at https://www.walmartethics.com/reportaconcern.aspx# or call 1-800-WM-ETHIC. - Becky S., SVP Human Resources
1.0
Feb 9, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Work life balance Sunnyvale location competitive pay a *handful* of smart people

Cons

Horrible management - absolutely amateurs when it comes to "leading" the company. There is so much of politics and promotions are decided on the basis of who can indulge in more bootlicking of the management. It gets frustrating when you realize that you could have just slacked off instead of working hard with so much passion to be where you are. Some people who got promoted don't even know what they were doing! What was the basis of promotions? And then these layoffs - some of them were very talented, hardworking people who sucked at politics. So there you go - talent does not matter in this company. The good talent leaves, the rest just make things worse for the ones who stay. Don't even think this place comes close to the top companies in terms of benefits, work culture or organization. The Cat Dev team is a joke that keeps doing reorgs thinking new management can solve their problems when in reality they are unable to find respectable, experienced people to lead. STAY AWAY from this place - it used to be a place where you could stay to get a regular paycheck but looks like even that doesn't hold with the layoffs.

1.0
Dec 16, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

They are currently paying high salary, excellent sign-up bonus to woo candidates. The benefits are probably one of the worst in silicon valley, however you can purchase a nice medical insurance with the additional money they will give you. Work life balance is generally good unless you are in a group that is production facing. If you are in executive level, as long as you do not want to execute your passion, this is a fantastic place to stay. Most of the talented executives have left the company hence if you actually understand technology and do not interfere in the power politics of highest leadership, it is a descent place to stay. There are still quite a lot of smart engineers in this company. Many of them are Indian or Chinese and these guys may be stuck there for their GC. You will learn about retail business.

Cons

The CTO lacks passion and vision. They purchased a few small companies in last 2/3 years and made some of the guys from those small companies as VPs and Senior Directors. It is very straight forward to understand these small failed start up executives seriously lack experience and they also do not really have any passion or interest for real work. Very interestingly some of them have formed political networks to help each other to rise the corporate ladder. You can investigate in LinkedIn by looking at the experience of some of their senior directors and VPs who came from small start ups. Many of these guys are quite inefficient, unethical and can conspire quite viciously to manipulate data to show success, tor they can also conspire to evict any of their peers who may compete with them. All these created an uncouth environment with several unethical people at the top leadership. Hence, this place can no longer be a reasonable choice. The medical plan is also getting reduced almost every year and the benefits are probably the worst in the industry. The entire office looks very cheap. They literally want to save money from anything and then they also dont pay well the ground level workers in stores. Overall they made Sam Walton's words an excuse for spending no money for the betterment of office experience or lives of their employees.

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