Walmart reviews

3.4

55% would recommend to a friend

(142,259 total reviews)
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John Furner

58% approve of CEO

51% positive business outlook

Walmart has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 142,259 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 Retail & Wholesale industry (3.4 stars).

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1.0
Jan 30, 2009
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Pros

Use as stepping stone to get a real job. they offer rotten benefits, make you work through breaks, tell you to do your traing at home on your days off, treat incompetent upper mgmt like royalty, don't know the meaning of workng smart- create endless nonsensical reports, and waste time on conferernce calls.

Cons

24/7 work, no respect of life-work balance. Expected to work off hours at home. out of date technology, they literally won't even put paper in the copy machine, give you no training, expect you to buy your own equipment, no respect, dishonest in pre-employmnet interviews, evasive when asked about expected work hours

1.0
Jul 29, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

The pay was okay but the town(bentonville) and some of the people were just a bunch of cutt throats from south asia.

Cons

H1B visa mill for low skilled workers. Company treats foreign workers better than citizens. You will be placed 2 levels below someone that is less competent so theres no reason to stay here and expect to move up the ladder like them. Company will force you to train offshore resources that make your life a living hell. They get treated better too because of their low cost, while you get treated bad because the offshore resources arent delivering on time and with quality. There are too many complacent managers/ directors/ vps that are disconnected from the workforce and they will make the worse decisions youve ever seen. Company doesnt care about their employees mental health. They will keep you away from family to live in the middle of nowhere. Incompetent people that want you to do their work even though they have a higher job title than you. A ton of project managers/ program managers (ive had 4 of them on one project and they are always asking noob questions and taking up valuable time) that arent adding any value. Their only purpose is to communicate to upper management about your work and your progress. If you are an American then be prepared to get treated unfairly. If you are an underrepresented minority then be prepared to experience systemic racism through people that strongly believe in a caste system.

1.0
Aug 16, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

It is a big company. If you require Visa sponsorship, it will get approved easily.

Cons

I have been with this company for more than 2 years now. I work with the membership/marketing team of Sams club. When I joined I was relatively less experienced and settled with this job since I had limited options. This company has no values and no work culture. Disrespectful behavior is common and you might get shout by senior engineers on daily basis for absolutely no reason. Engineers are not qualified and do not have basic skills. Senior engineers ask things like teach us Java and if you refer them to some tutorial they don't like it. Also, among this, it is important to maintain a good relationship with senior engineers. However disrespectful or poor they are at there job, leadership will not take any actions against them. They will get credit for all your good work. Most of the design sessions become an insulting game, where everybody is just looking to insult each other. The team has a culture of bullying, harassment, and take advantage of people who are new and not part of their tribe. All things I have said in this Paragraph have happened to me and that in front of leadership. I am talking about people at director levels. Management (Especially at the director level) has no background in tech and completely clueless about Software development. Last year they brought two tech folks to the leadership role. Tech leads can't do basic software design, lack basic programming skills ( forget about DS& Algo). You will never get the credit for the good work you are doing. Team culture is toxic. You are dealing with a tribe (This tribe is made of South Indian people. They are heavily racist) who is just there to get the work out of you. There is continuous pressure to work on weekends and if you don't then you are not showing responsibility. Basically your skill level doesn't matter, your personal relationship has high importance, also how well you fit into the Toxic culture of this tribe. It is also important that your skills are poor. People actually do not want strong engineers to grow here since everybody in the team is weak. I have seen people outside of my team also who are surprisingly unprofessional. Insult there own teammates or get into shouting games with each other. My experience is mostly within the same club but has worked with sufficient teams in Walmart. I am comfortable to say that most of the teams in Walmart are like this. If you are wondering, why I just don't switch the job. My H1B got picked up this year, it was my last attempt. I also tried to switch the job last year and cleared technical rounds of some reputed tech companies. They wouldn't continue with me since this was my last attempt for H1B. Hopefully, by the end of this year, I will be able to switch and get a job I like.

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