So I was on a call with the recruiter. They were doing everything to sell the company. Kept mentioning diversity etc etc. I don’t want to be a diversity hire but the pay and company is nice. It all seems a bit suspicious.
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@a5 The diversity hires I've had at Walmart were actually the best and most dedicated associates on my team. I think, at that time, we had a good pool of talented group of thoroughly vetted diversity hires to choose from. They certainly were more talented and much better associates that the rent-to-own group that came in from Accenture (or maybe it was Cognizant, I don't remember).
@1m5 Or is it a accurate title and ending it was the plan, now there's a scary thought, and judging from the modern day women these days, it makes more sense everyday. The behavior and attitudes they have do seem to fit the personality traits with serial ki//ers.
@16m Agreed, and no you don't want to work there unless you are one of the DEI's, it's just reverse racism and anti everything traditional value wise, and just camouflaged unter a nifty title to make everyone comfortable with being hateful mo--ns, like everything the democrats do, it's like planned parenthood, if you planned it why are you ending it?
@156 women can’t lead they should be in the kitchen making sandwiches.
@14q I agree with much of what you are saying. If you’ve been there 20 years then you remember before Harvest and after Harvest, or, just about the same time period, during Rowland and then during KAT. There was a time I liked being there as a director (even those old nasty blue cubes and offices at DGTC) and then once KAT got in, everything started to su-k. I’m gone now and happy I am. I’ve never been involved with a management team driven by stupidity and so poorly trained to be sharp, insightful and wonderful technical leaders. It’s a total shame and I’ll be eternally sorry for talking one of my friends into joining their support area. He sold his home, moved his family and then got laid off. He was stuck in sukville for months. Fortunately he got a new and better job, more money, no war rooms, no on call duty, no gimme a W, and now his life is good.
I work in tech for Walmart and have for 20+ years. Overall it’s been a mostly positive experience but the sword of Damocles that is a layoff round is always in the back of my mind. Every 2-3 years there’s a culling that never seems to really make sense. As with any company this size job satisfaction is going to come down to the team you end up on. I can’t even guesstimate how many different tech teams there are but there are ones with good management and leaders and ones with poor management and leaders and unfortunately there’s not a blanket answer to know what you’re coming into. That said, the money is good.
@bf Cool story bro, now spend your millions and get off walmart layoff websites.
@ag I worked for Walmart for nearly 40 years. My first job right out of college. We only had about 500 stores at the time. I started as a management Trainee @ 484 Lawrence KS. I had a variety of positions in Both the Home office and in the Field. Yes, I met Sam Walton several times, and was in the Home office when he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Bush #I1. My point. Yeah I'm familiar with the company and culture, and not it's not always pretty or easy. But... if you are dedicated and work hard--- and really contribute--- no company in the world offers you more . I'm 62 years old. Retired and and a multi millionaire . My first salary back in 1984 was $300 per week. Get over over all your " I can't afford a latte" BS mentality. PS: Bentonville was "dry" and still had gravel streets when I lived there.
@ae this is the unfortunate reality for any big company across the board right now. Some are way worse than others. For example would you rather be at Amazon or Walmart right now? - OP
@ad Working for Walmart is like shopping there, you're in and out. People that already have money will take jobs simply for the 6% company matches to their 401ks and grow their money, it's giant scheme really, then their those just trying to survive and those are the one's that are over worked and given unrealistic metrics to meet and goals and treated like dirt and made to watch brainwashing elearns like some kind of LSD experiment and see how it changes the behavior of the once perfectly normal associate, lab rats for lack of a better term. They feed you constantly the Walmart cheer while stabbing you the backs and sending you a email saying your laid off. It's not hard to see, if you work there, they want you to feel welcome and like family and you never need to go anywhere else for anything you need, they have food, drinks, healthcare, banking, discounts etc. They want to feel like it's Disneyland and in reality, you're being deceived by a bunch of wealthy people that belong more in San Francisco not Bentonville Arkansas and nowhere near any youth. That's the cold hard truth.
@ad jobs replaced by AI, entire departments being dismantled, changes in Business Strategy/Direction, re-organizations that introduced staff redundancy, jobs moving overseas, leadership needing to make opening so they can bring in their friends from their last company, out with the old, in with the new, erasing legacy technology/solutions and teams that support them, cuts in headcount to appease Budget/Finacials (i.e. control expenses) ...etc...etc...
@OP Im OP just to clarify this is a position in northern Virginia thankfully. I’m curious as to what you all mean by people getting abruptly laid off that have nothing to do with performance. Why is that? Why even hire in the first place?
@OP Short answer, no. It was once and may be again, but as for now it is not.
Long answer, the "tech" portion of Walmart is pretty bad. They've regularly done annual layoffs, 3000+ last year. Some folks laid off were only with the company a short time while others were long term Associates. Some even had just relocated to the area only days/weeks before being laidoff, and these are not "performance" purges.
They have fractured competing leadership US vs India, with non-aligned organizations. Little to no meaningful project management, poor budget management, and both toxic negativity and toxic positivity environments. With poor leadership transplants from outside the company, and as another posted, no loyalty to you while demanding from you.
Can you be successful there? Yes. Can you make money there? Yes. Will you be happy? Unknown.
And while Bentonville is not the quiet small town it once was, it is not a tech mecca. When you relocate here, then find yourself laidoff, there aren't a lot of places to go work in the tech field here. Most companies in the area have already been saturated from previous Walmart tech purges. If you can land a position with a Vendor partner, there are some restrictions as a former Associate.
@a5 Diversity .... how's this for DEI, better get ready to call people by their "Preferred Name", that's right if John wants to be called Jane, or Rebecca wants to be called Robert or Billy wants to be called Ms Butterflypopsicklesticks then that's what you better call them.
@OP I echo your sentiment. If you’re a diversity hire, we don’t want you, either.
And, NO. There’s no tech jobs at Walmart that are good places to work. They have no loyalty, they sc--w their associates over and Bentonville (also known as Su-kville) is horrible.