Where do I start:
- Its humorous to watch people managers that have 90's degrees trying to prove technical. This is bay area, home of best universities ! Pls wake up ! It sounds kiddish when you folks talk in meetings. Let the people you hired do their job.
- Managers can travel business classes and spend irresponsibly(and proudly chatter) with no purpose expect eating food. But initiatives will get declined with silly reasons like no budget for 10TB of memory. If this sounds good, you have a problem.
- Paradise for contractors(spouse referrals). Lethargic approach in hiring contractors. There are lot of nice and deserving people that work like crazy, but wont get recognized. But contractors that plan their vacations during 5 days of work for the coming holiday can survive with 3 digit/hr billing rates. No issues.
- The group that I worked in had few adult activities during business hrs affecting other folks for prolonged period, but the management only showed blind sight.
- Internal transfer process is almost non-existent. People that have proven track record, crave to work hard and grow organically will find no takers even after literally touching manager's foot.
- Most promotions are not deserved. It doesn't matter how much you know, who you know matters.
- Have witnessed managers cook up & manipulating reports/charts etc., when presenting to leadership. Not once.
- Largely dominated by 1 ethnic group. No bias. When it brings a ugly culture to the whole company, it needs a check.
- Anyone with access to check-in a piece of code can break things and affect solid 2 days of work easily. I bet ! No concept of sanity or continuous integration. But there is a team that dedicatedly works in engineering tools. I really don't know what the directors and Sr Directors's day to day routine are.
- Do a simple test. Break a very very simple integrating on purpose in Production. It will take 10 mins for the siteops to reach support team, support team will take 10 mins to login, 10 more minutes to recognize there is a problem, 20 minus to find a relevant team, 10 minus for the relevant team to come in contact and atleast 1-2 hrs to even recognize the problem. If it involves Bentonville, add a bonus 2hrs. By now, there would have been tons of orders lost. Such is the volume. Just do this exercise and see yourself what happens. No joke !
- When someone asks me, "How is the culture in Walmart eCommerce like ?". I am like, "depends on the manager". If this sounds good, why do we need many layers of leadership beyond managers ? Let them report to CEO?
- 80% of the work is done by 20% of the people.
- Credit stealing is the primary occupation for majority of folks in the above 80%. Been a victim, many times.
- Many capable people are sticking for Green Card, looking for right opportunities or waiting for the right move. Many good leaders have left.
- Its a great place for people in Washington D.C to conduct campus recruitment on Walmart eCommerce premises. The drive would empty almost half of this company. Why? Such is their political skills. You can find some best people that can employed in lobbying ! D.C folks, are you hearing ?
- People could go any extent to capture power. Even to the extent of humiliating sincere and passionate efforts. Been a victim.
- Seldom have looked upon someone as true leader. Infant, got more inspiration from my peers.
- Managers and reportee's keep each other insecure with simple strategies.
