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The community is having a great discussion around “remote work”. You see the dichotomy of companies such as Slack who build products that happen to enable bette

The community is having a great discussion around “remote work”. You see the dichotomy of companies such as Slack who build products that happen to enable better remote communication, but who hire people to co-located buildings. As soon as you get beyond a few people, you are working “remotely”. If you aren’t in the same room you will have your main workflow happening through tooling. Yes, you can get together to meet face to face on topics, but that isn’t your general workflow. Never heard such glory come from anything associated with Walmart before. Remote working is what you do everyday even if you are 'co-located in the same building', or same company different building. To top it off all your customers are remote, get your communication and systems in check to also do remote, it gives an external view like no other on your product, and gives all your product engineers a lab to work in.

lsaferite 12y ago
I was having a conversation last month about Walmart Labs. apparently they try very hard to point out they are NOT Walmart. :)
- snsr 12y ago
  Somehow I don't find that surprising at all. http://www.forbes.com/sites/clareoconnor/2014/04/15/report-walmart-workers-cost-taxpayers-6-2-billion-in-public-assistance/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/clareoconnor/2014/04/15/report-w...
  - lsaferite 12y ago
    Apparently they have a hard time recruiting as well due to the name.
    - lightbritefight 12y ago
      Thats understandable. Walmarts brand is pretty much defined as "We treat our employees poorly, but look how cheap things are." I wouldn't consider either of those factors good selling points for an employer.
shanemhansen 12y ago
I work for Walmart. Remotely. It is glorious. While many of the teams are Scala and clojure focused, my team does mostly Golang.
- iends 12y ago
  Walmart seems like a great place to develop for. They use some awesome and fun technology.
- tiler 12y ago
  How could I get in touch with a team within Walmart that uses Scala? (To see if there are any available positions.)
  - shanemhansen 12y ago
    Here's one job post mentioning scala: http://jobs.walmart.com/silicon-valley/engineering/jobid6945617-senior-software-engineer-jobs http://jobs.walmart.com/silicon-valley/engineering/jobid6945... walmart.ca is now running play and scala afaik: http://www.nurun.com/en/news/nurun-launches-redesigned-transactional-platform-with-walmart-canada/ http://www.nurun.com/en/news/nurun-launches-redesigned-trans...
- dack 12y ago
  How do I know what teams work with Clojure? The jobs site seems to just mention Java.
  - shanemhansen 12y ago
    Staff Software Engineer: http://jobs.walmart.com/silicon-valley/engineering/jobid7058336-staff-mobile-instore-engineer-jobs http://jobs.walmart.com/silicon-valley/engineering/jobid7058... Google seems to be the best way to search for these positions.

lsaferite 12y ago

I was having a conversation last month about Walmart Labs. apparently they try very hard to point out they are NOT Walmart. :)

snsr 12y ago
Somehow I don't find that surprising at all. http://www.forbes.com/sites/clareoconnor/2014/04/15/report-walmart-workers-cost-taxpayers-6-2-billion-in-public-assistance/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/clareoconnor/2014/04/15/report-w...
- lsaferite 12y ago
  Apparently they have a hard time recruiting as well due to the name.
  - lightbritefight 12y ago
    Thats understandable. Walmarts brand is pretty much defined as "We treat our employees poorly, but look how cheap things are." I wouldn't consider either of those factors good selling points for an employer.

shanemhansen 12y ago

I work for Walmart. Remotely. It is glorious. While many of the teams are Scala and clojure focused, my team does mostly Golang.

iends 12y ago
Walmart seems like a great place to develop for. They use some awesome and fun technology.
tiler 12y ago
How could I get in touch with a team within Walmart that uses Scala? (To see if there are any available positions.)
- shanemhansen 12y ago
  Here's one job post mentioning scala: http://jobs.walmart.com/silicon-valley/engineering/jobid6945617-senior-software-engineer-jobs http://jobs.walmart.com/silicon-valley/engineering/jobid6945... walmart.ca is now running play and scala afaik: http://www.nurun.com/en/news/nurun-launches-redesigned-transactional-platform-with-walmart-canada/ http://www.nurun.com/en/news/nurun-launches-redesigned-trans...
dack 12y ago
How do I know what teams work with Clojure? The jobs site seems to just mention Java.
- shanemhansen 12y ago
  Staff Software Engineer: http://jobs.walmart.com/silicon-valley/engineering/jobid7058336-staff-mobile-instore-engineer-jobs http://jobs.walmart.com/silicon-valley/engineering/jobid7058... Google seems to be the best way to search for these positions.