Pros
Walmart was my first job straight out of college. I did so little work (which is also a con, see below) to the point that I was constantly taking 3 hour lunch breaks and grocery runs, and nobody bats an eye.
Cons
Omg where do I start? When I first joined as a programmer, they put on this team which worked on super old technologies and uses mainframes. I didn’t know anything about mainframes and had zero interest in learning it, so I did nothing for 6 months until I complained my way out of the team citing incompatible skill set. The fact that the managers or the leads didn’t care that I was struggling until I spoke up was a huge red flag despite the fact that I wasn’t contributing anything for half an year. Later, they moved me into a brand new team and project which initially was very good for me because for the first time ever I was actually being productive and coding every single day. After awhile, I realized that Walmart doesn’t care about best practices, doing unit tests, or code reviews. They literally did none of that, and that really hurt me when I was searching for a new job because most companies want their developers to do things like that. After 3 months on the project, they keep hiring new people on team and I ended with nothing to do AGAIN. This went on for a long time, and of course nobody cared that I wasn’t doing anything or writing any code. I had so little to do that I ended doing dev ops stuff. 2 months before I left the company they wanted me to work on a Java Swing application...in 2017. The day I got an offer to join a new company in New York was one of the most happiest of my life. I was finally relieved that I don’t have to pretend to be working and pretend to be interested in using old technologies like JSP’s or some obscure JavaScript framework like dojo. Needless to say, I absolutely hated my time at this stupid, awful company. The technologies are old and outdated. The managers don’t care, nobody cares about anything. Nothing has made me more apathetic about corporate America than this absolute crap hole. Also, the pay is bad and way below average which doesn’t help with morale. Everyone I know complains about the horrible salaries. Bentonville is a crappy small town with literally nothing to do. Nobody will visit you except maybe your mom, and I had people laughed at my face after I told them I lived in. They asked me why on earth was I there to the point that I don’t even tell people that I used to live in Arkansas anymore.
