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Ahold Delhaize

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Remember, it's a grocer not a native tech company - Anonymous employee Ahold Delhaize Employee Review

3.0
Oct 19, 2021
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Lots of nice people and most employees can maintain a much better work-life balance than at FAANG or a startup. You can build big new things with funding from a large parent company. You can have a good experience working here.

Cons

Don't come into the organization expecting it to operate like a native tech company or a standalone retailer. The work Ahold Delhaize is trying to do through Peapod Digital Labs is counter-cultural for the grocery industry, but PDL's customers are a group of traditional grocery store brands who are used to calling the shots for their respective businesses. This can lead to sub-optimization of the e-commerce platform at the whim of a specific brick-and-mortar leader, product decisions that might seem baffling in a stand-alone tech company, and ways of operating that are not agile (think slow/opaque decision-making and waterfall/monolithic execution). Key context: the most senior leaders in PDL are long-time parent company insiders.

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Pros

Large enterprise environment with exposure to complex network infrastructure, major vendors, data centers, WAN, firewalls, and large-scale operational processes. There are good people on the team, and the environment itself can give you visibility into how a large company manages network services.

Cons

The Network Engineering role is not really hands-on network engineering. Much of the actual technical work, implementation, configuration, and deeper engineering execution is handled by HCL. Internally, the role can feel more like vendor coordination, ticket chasing, and driving HCL than actually owning and engineering the network yourself. If you are expecting to configure, troubleshoot deeply, build solutions, implement changes, and stay technically hands-on, this role may be disappointing. It can feel less like being a network engineer and more like being an HCL babysitter with a network engineering title

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