200 e-commerce folks, California offices Tuesday... Part of the latest cut, all done before the end of January.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/wal-mart-to-cut-200-e-commerce-jobs-in-california-2017-01-24
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I hope you didn't get the job, as 200 layoffs is not <1% it's close to 7%.
There is widespread abuse of the
H1-B visa system by many tech companies and those who hire IT professionals
It's a mini India over there
Will there be more layoffs in San Bruno or was that it ?
From linkedin I gather they have around 3000 people. Not sure if that includes jet.com employees also. So <1% are laid off. I got a call few months back for position in Reston VA. They never proceeded after initial call.
I wasn't directly impacted by this, but from the few instances I've seen, the people being ousted seem to be those that had questioned tech. decisions.
They were people who did badly during our review process.
For instance we have a brand new react server side rendering based platform.
I think the performance of that framework is somewhere around 2 concurrent requests per virtual machine. And we're bragging about our performance chops publicly:
https://medium.com/walmartlabs/using-electrode-to-improve-react-server-side-render-performance-by-up-to-70-e43f9494eb8b#.h1uvfandj
Wal-Mart has many problems, I don't think too many experienced engineers is one of them.