Good experience working on real production issues and outages.
Learned a lot about debugging, monitoring, and handling incidents.
Got exposure to many systems, tools, and teams.
Cons
Can be stressful during major incidents and on-call situations.
A lot of support and monitoring work instead of building new things.
Sometimes you find the issue but another team has to fix it.
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- Great individual engineers
- New campus is beautiful
- A lot of internal knowledge and tools
- Offers Coursera courses for learning
- The 10% discount card is nice
Cons
- Work-life balance is quite bad, with many teams requiring pager rotations and managers pinging after-hours
- Upper management is a carousel of people putting in their two years of experience before moving to another company for a fat signing bonus
- Lower management pushes you to use AI for 1/3+ of your work to suck as much "productivity" out of you as possible
- There's really no Walmart culture. Over my tenure I saw upper management claim we would remember Mr Sam and never become Amazon, and ten years later we were being run by ex-Amazon VPs and directors.
- Layoff waves are swift and without mercy
- Shutdown many of their diversity programs and rarely put out company-wide messages with any sort of spine