I heard that all the engineers were told to relocate, but I met a PM at a networking event who still works remote out of Atlanta. Walmart is a company I am interested in working for in the future but not sure if they are leaving Atlanta for good or if its just engineering jobs.
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PM = private messages?
Everything said below is true.
Walmart is not a lifetime career.
Look, you’d be an absolute fool to work for Walmart in a PM role that was not at home office. And, I’d go as far to say you’d be insane to work as a PM for Walmart, even in Bentonville. I could site instance after instance with true cases. Even if you were a scrum master with years and years of experience, Walmart will su-k the life out of you, expect you to do and say distasteful things, then probably make you train your contractor replacement, and then lay you off. Believe me, this is not the same company Sam founded anymore. Walmart has no allegiance to associates, they bring in offshore contractors and H1B workers. The only way I’d recommend anyone working on a professional career path to work for Walmart is if:
- you were from Bentonville and knew the current Walmart dynamic, and
- had no other employment options, or
- being laid off from your current company and are in serious financial distress, and
- used Walmart as a temporary stop while you looked for something else.
This is the voice of experience talking. Maybe others will chime in.