Walmart Senior Programmer Analyst reviews

As you move up the Programmer food chain, you end up doing less development and more leading. And the leading is not necessarily with internal folks. You deal with A LOT of contractors and vendors. Managing them is a bit difficult as they have one goal ... staying on the project and extending profit for their contract. There isn't a lot of use of new technology. If there is, you are balancing your knowledge of the old legacy system while introducing the "new" technology. Too many processes and procedures that limit and slow down the ability for developers to push things to production.

-Management lies to potential employees about the technology they will be using. -You will be introduced to and forced to learn 40 year old technology. -The bathrooms in David Glass Technology Center are horrific. They have about 50 stalls always full of defecating employees with NO VENTILATION! You have to have the lung capacity of Michael Phelps to use the urinal. -The benefits, which are already HORRIBLE, get cut every year as the prices go up 40+%, but remember, you get to work for Walmart. -Lots of hours. Be expected to put in 45-60 hours a week with NO compensation other than the privilege of working for Walmart. -Working in a massive two-story building with NO WINDOWS. -You pay more for a Sam's card than if you walked in off the street. Avoid the "benefits" if you do decide you are desperate enough to work here.