Politics. Toxic Review System. Tough Culture. High Turnover.
The employee review process fosters a negative environment where sucking up is rewarded and employees have to campaign to grow. Reviews are not based on actual performance but based on who leaders are pushing forward for promotion each review round. All leaders discuss the candidates up for promotion and have to fight to get their associates promoted. This creates the suck up environment because associates campaign to get promoted with their leaders peers. This deters and takes away from the work. Great work and talent is not rewarded.
Leaders say growth is owned by the associate. No accountability for fostering and building talent. This means there are no growth opportunities and leadership gives employees a "figure it out yourself" mentality.
Being a "yes man" is rewarded, critical thinking and actually caring about the work and the end customer is completely disregarded.
Top talent leaves because of this.
Pay is not comparable to the tech industry at all.
High turnover in leadership. Every 6 months the strategy changes due to new leaders. This isn't for innovation this is chaotic and all progress is set back because a new leader wants to prove themselves instead of evolving and building upon the successes that have been established.
Leadership tries to say they operate like a startup, which is an excuse for a chaos and disorganization. This is Walmart, this is a well established brand with incredible brand DNA. STOP trying to sell it like it is something else and sell it for what it is, which is the longest standing, largest retailer in the world. Be proud of that.
Managers are treated like entry level associates and are not given resources to elevate their work and continue to grow individually while impacting business and the customer experience to the most potential. Leadership continues to use budget to layer directly under themselves - Creating top heavy orgs. Bottom line everyone is so eager for their own growth they are failing to lift up and grow talent from the bottom up. Leaders don't actually want to manage people or do the work.
Leaders will take credit for work and not give appropriate credit.
Bait & Switch for level hiring - promised one thing and hired in at a lower level, stinting career growth and putting employees below market value for compensation.
