Walmart Global Tech reviews

Lack of growth due to politics. Many directors are incompetent and technically illiterate. A classic example is the director(now promoted to a senior director's role) Sapna Balan who is driven by ego and nepotism. Technically poor - last time we spoke, she didn't understand that python can't run on tomcat, thinks .Net is like Java only simpler, believes and insists a docker container shouldn't die when the running process is killed. These are just some examples. To add to this, imagine a person who is technically poor and arrogant at the same time. An individual that refuses to accept plausible technical solutions and insists on ludicrous approaches to a problem. A security issue related to IP whitelisting and individuals such as these suggest that we use DNS instead. If you try explaining how these technologies work and provide network 101 inputs, you're called insubordinate and any chance of a promotion is thrown out the window. Desperate to grow? Learn the art of buttering someone up. Imagine the toxicity when a director has a slide in her townhall presentation which states working hours and doesn't want people working remotely even when they have late night calls. A product company with seasoned professionals deserve better. Such hiring gaffes have severely affected many a team in Walmart India and productivity on the whole. Directors need not be technically sound but a good leader must be a good listener, admit that they lack in certain areas and learn from individuals who know technology. Arrogance and ignorance are the worst combination in a leader and Walmart India has too many of these. I left this toxic team/environment because of the above mentioned director and moved on to a leadership role in one of the top Product firms in the industry.

Ok so here I start with. (Also, bring some ParleG because I have a cup of tea to spill over ) 1. The work culture is pathetic here. Everyone wants to pull other folks down rather than growing together. This goes even more horrible at Staff Software engineer or higher level. 2. This is now a typical service based firm trying to show off like a product based firm. 3. Their product team hire more capable (vendor) developers from outside & unfortunately neitheir their tech leadership know how to behave properly nor their tech team treats them as a good teammate. (The simple reason is vendor teams produce better results in shorter amount of time then their developers.) 4. The shrude nature of (almost) every developer here and their arrogance and attitude is just next level. However most of them came from service firm like Capgemini/TCS/CTS but they think they built entire google and then joined walmart hired them. 5. They have a inhouse deployment pipeline which keeps breaking almost every single day and their support slack groups don't respond due to volume of messages. 6. The quality of work is even more worse here. You are only going to develop small APIs here along with that least challenging UI. Don't expect walmart to give you that Out of the box work which you have been interviewed for. Even their product team doesn't know what business need so forget about developing a good product here. 7. Their staff engineers will ask vendors to follow all necessary coding conventions however when it will come to their development team, they'll push to do it later as they are not even able to complete features on time 😅 8. It is such a horrible place to work for that people leave here within a month(or max an year) of joining. 9. Their United states leadership all driven by Indians there, which is making the culture even more pathetic. 10. The most horrible team to work here is product team. They are never aligned with business before building anything and design figmas like a small child with a pencil in hand. (Draw anything where you find an empty. 11. IDC Is like a slave center for US leadership. They don't even know how to respect each other, forget about providing something extraordinary benefits to employees. I won't recommend anyone to join walmart global tech (banglore IDC ) in future even if you'll get a salary equivalent to Jeff Bezos. Wish I could have given zero or negative ratings to them.