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Is Walmart "techy" again? I remember the 2015ish years where they pushed their new techy devops remote teams and then shut them down and fired everyone. It was
by swozey 3y ago
Is Walmart "techy" again? I remember the 2015ish years where they pushed their new techy devops remote teams and then shut them down and fired everyone. It was so abrupt and out of left field. I don't know if their CTO changed or what but a lot of my peers were laid off.
I can't remember what they were called, they had some cool kubernetes (mesos?) stuff iirc.
- marklar423 3y agoThis F# code is probably remaining from their Jet.com acquisition, which (IIRC) used it to run some box-packing algorithm.
- renegade-otter 3y agoThey acquired Jet.com years ago. Not sure how much of that infra made it into Walmart, but they definitely made an attempt to be "more tech". Granted that the entire Jet project was an acquisition attempt to irritate Amazon - what the founder had done before with diapers.com
- addicted 3y agoI’m pretty sure their online presence was rebuilt by the Jet.com guys. The Jet.com CEO was almost immediately made the head of their digital transformation and took an end to end approach of digitizing everything from the website to their logistics and warehousing.
- anotherhue 3y agoThis is correct. I was there.
- swozey 3y agoOh so Jet was the techy one they brought in that brought that? I had never heard that, interesting. It's got to be terrifying working at a company that gets bought by Walmart. edit: https://corporate.walmart.com/news/2016/08/08/walmart-agrees-to-acquire-jet-com-one-of-the-fastest-growing-e-commerce-companies-in-the-u-s https://corporate.walmart.com/news/2016/08/08/walmart-agrees...
- renegade-otter 3y agoThey were pretty "hardcore". I once went to a meetup there to learn about the Pony language.