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The chant is absolutely real. I don’t know how frequently they do it in retail, but it was pretty infrequent in the software engineer positions. Source: I was
by tombert 3y ago
The chant is absolutely real. I don’t know how frequently they do it in retail, but it was pretty infrequent in the software engineer positions.
Source: I was a software engineer for Jet.com for two years after the Walmart acquisition, and then another year separately.
- mech422 3y agoRoss Perot/EDS and I think IBM used to do the cheers.. EDS would also interview you wife (if you had one) to make sure she fit in with the EDS family.
- zhivota 3y agoWait, so you're saying you had to do a chant as a SWE? That's wild. I'm really glad I never took up the recruiters for Walmart Labs now, that would have been a disaster for me.
- sib 3y agoFor those groups, typically at things like quarterly all-hands, etc. Not on a daily basis as they do in the retail side.
- tombert 3y agoIt wasn’t super common, only like all hands stuff, and it’s not like they would fire you if you didn’t do it. I didn’t do the chant every time and I wasn’t fired.