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FWIW, this is definitely not what I hear from my network. Amazon has a reputation as a high-variance but usually bad place to be as a tech worker, while people
by SatvikBeri 10y ago
FWIW, this is definitely not what I hear from my network. Amazon has a reputation as a high-variance but usually bad place to be as a tech worker, while people love Walmart Labs.
- gumby 10y agoFWIW I have heard the same thing.
- praneshp 10y agoI interviewed there a year ago, at least to me it looked like they were absorbed (or at least parts of the Labs team I spoke to) into Walmart e-commerce. Five excruciating 1-hour rounds where we ran out of anything to talk about because they refused to ask me any coding or architecture or CS fundamental-related questions.
- 0xCAFEFARE 10y agoWhat? They refused to ask CS related questions? Did you discern a reason why?
- praneshp 10y agoWell it's not like I asked them and they refused to ask me any questions. 3/5 people asked me "what happens when you boot a VM in openstack", which was a kind-of-shitty question because I can know the answer from just looking at a picture in the docs. More than that, I went in expecting a grilling interview (because Walmart Labs) and it was a huge anti-climax. I wasn't hugely impressed by the people that interviewed me too, except for one guy who has now left. As to discerning a reason, no clue. At least 2 of them were competent coders, so no idea why they never asked me anything.
- hyperbovine 10y agoYou might want to double check that those people still have a job: http://fortune.com/2017/01/26/walmart-layoffs-ecommerce/ http://fortune.com/2017/01/26/walmart-layoffs-ecommerce/
- wwalser 10y agoI was hearing similar stories until the current CTO took over. From that I've heard some fairly negative takes.
- SatvikBeri 10y agoDang, that sucks. Thanks for the update.