I feel both ashamed and surprised to witness the numerous new hires and promotions that have occurred in the last two years, despite the lack of significant deployments in EBS Payroll technology.
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Entire EBS is ashamed of David Glick.
@fb it wasn't always like that at Walmart. They had to go outside to truly excell at ki-ling its culture and growing increased levels of incompetence. Long timers would eventully become undesirable because they would see the outside hired leadership for what they really are, a toxic element that is brought in to repeat the failures of the past, introduce goals and vision long abandoned for their ineffectiveness, and bring in their own followers to pad the levels of incompetence.
Ignoring the H1B and offshore aspects, most outside leadership comes in bringing their old company experience, to a place they do not know, with a history they do not know, and a culture they do not know.
Long ago, outside leadership would, after a short time be molded into fine associates able to blend their previous experience and talent into Walmart and truly grow the teams, themselves, and the company. Today with the missguided Walton family control, BoD, and increased outside influence from India and China, those days are long gone. Now is the time to undo the past, unburdened by what has been and turn Walmart into a copy of every other soulless company.
Imagine a company like Walmart, with its long and celebrated history of promoting from within, didnt even fill the top HR position internally, they brought in someone from Abobe, and she has overseen some of the most dismal morale drops, massive layoffs, and toxic hiring, never before seen. Not to mention the complete fiasco of Walmarts handling of Covid on her watch.
@fa why do you think that this is happening at Walmart? Are Google or Meta like this, too?
Pathetic isn’t it. Management promotes anyone without qualifications. Sad what goes on. After 30+ years with Walmart it’s time for me to leave. I cannot take all the favoritism. Plus some coaches are real bullies.
I recently interviewed with a team at EBS and was honestly surprised by the lack of leadership presence from the senior manager. I’ve interviewed with both small and large companies before, but I’ve rarely seen a manager who seemed so clearly out of depth — and it became apparent within 30 minutes.
I’m not joining EBS, but from this experience I can see why frustrations exist there. They don’t have a feature store, and instead of tackling proper engineering foundations, they expect data scientists to solve engineering problems. On top of that, they bring in people without prior experience in payments or ML deployment systems, which only adds to the challenges.
You neglected to mention that the awards are distributed every month and quarter without any justification.