2009: Studying hard so you don't work at Walmart when you grow up. 2023: Hoping you get a job offer from Walmart so you can get paid well. What a turn around!
it is like amazon warehouse vs amazon software development engineer. you dont want the first but 2nd is quite a sweet gig, well, until you get tired of the slave-driving corporate work culture which forces you to work 60 hours a week.
That’s not true anymore. Retail Walmart employees enjoy one of the highest starting salaries and great benefits, including the ability to pursue a college degree.
Walmart has been known for having logistics capabilities on par with the US Department of Defense for years. That requires a significant amount of tech. Walmart being competitive in the tech space should not surprise anyone.
It also didn’t used to buy anything off the shelf but developed it all in house. Not sure if tufts still the case but either way they built up a lot of serious tech capability, and their ROI on technology investments was light years ahead of anyone else outside the tech sector
@@calvin1715 That's just the nature of logistics. There are simply too many variables between truck maintenance issues, drivers going to the wrong place or needing to stop, or some warehouses getting backed up, that it's impossible for everything to run smoothly, which is why you have people working in operations and logistics who are always pulling their hair out trying to coordinate the mess and prevent one domino from knocking down all the others.
walmart beat FEMA to hurricane disaster zones with semis of water and other supplies. in fact we should probably outsource FEMA to walmart cause FEMA is $16 billion in debt now and no money left in the flood insurance fund
My first tech job was with Walmart Global Tech. They have an absolutely behemoth tech organization, with DoD level cybersecurity practices. I’ll say that internally they’re a very dysfunctional company, but they gave me a salary that was unthinkable growing up in Arkansas and taught me a bunch.
@@benchoflemons398 prepared for what? If all tech jobs can be automated then no other profession is safe. None. If all tech jobs can be automated then that means AGI has been invented and if AGI has been invented even doctors and lawyers can be automated and will be. Yea good luck preparing for such a world, you can't.
I worked at Walmart once, and despite the fact that the job absolutely sucks. I have to admit, their employees software system is extremely well designed and organized, look very nice as well. So I guess this makes sense
@desenagrator Just an FYI, Walmart has been phasing out the SMART system for a few years now. It's mostly done on apps that Walmart developed so that employees can use them on company supplied smart phones ($300+ Samsung Galaxy smartphones), instead of $1000+ telxon's and tc70's. It's cheaper, and much better, and now all employees have access to the correct inventory related apps so they can do their job better, and faster, instead of having to go look for a handheld. Also the SMART System is barely even used anymore, it's slowly becoming obsolete and getting phased out completely. I've worked for them for 8 years and since I got hired in 2015 I have seen Walmart go through a lot of changes, mostly for the better. Except for getting rid of valuable jobs and putting more stress on people who are over certain departments, all so they can save money, and look like they are giving more raises to store workers 😒.
I have a relative who is a a Walmart claims supervisor. She been there over 35 years. She keeps telling me she dont make much . I think she is feeding me a bunch of BS. You do not stay with a company that long if they do not pay well. She has no college degree but seems to do pretty good ???
Their grocery delivery is really easy and their return policy is even better than Amazon. Their prices are just about the same although sometimes Amazon is a bit cheaper.
They still need to work out issues. Great value, their house brand stays out of stock a lot. They also don't ship a lot of items, but reserve for pickup only. Items also switch a lot from we can ship to pickup only increasing customer frustration. Plus most liquids are pickup only. Amazon doesn't suffer any of these problems.
@@brodriguez11000 good points. I found that if you order your groceries after 11 AM the selection is usually much better. Maybe it has something to do with when their trucks get in or their system updates?
Amazon has forayed into tech AWS because they realized, retail competition will be cut throat if others pour huge money. But differentiated technology products services can provide permanent market by making companies dependent on it.
Funny how apple is on the chart of top paying jobs, when their factories in china pretty much don´t even pay wages and people doing like 24hour shifts 7 days a week or some shit like that :D
Very interesting. Walmart is extremely underrated company I did construction for Walmart a few years ago & I can say they have some big things planned.
@@LogicallyAnswered It honestly isnt that bad, compared to other retailers I love it. Im able to sit in my car and get a 20 min extra break because I can switch my location to the store im working at and clock in.
@@llamaxrider yeah I was lucky I was able to do that with the work phone they gave me for my position. Due to labor laws in my state, we weren't allowed to access that time clock feature on our personal phones so if you weren't like a stocker or sales associate, you weren't able to get that work phone which had access to that feature and have to resort to using the actual timeclock.
The scanner software on the worker app seems to have some ai training. A bit back, it suddenly started being able to scan barcodes in basically any condition and orientation. The regular app that customers use still has that hold still to scan crap, I think to make I look nice or something.
I live in the same city as walmart. There arent many jobs under $100,000 a year here. Landscapers, handyman, mechanics are all $100k to $150k jobs here. If you can fix lawn mowers all day for $60 an hour as a high school drop out or drive for ups for $80 an hour then you gonna have to pay over $100 an hour for a programmer.
Meanwhile as a software engineer with a 1A grade, being core contributor to a well known PHP framework, also well adversed in AWS & Google Cloud and fluent in Packer and Terraform and i am unable to find a job because in my country standards are so low you can forget everything you learned and have to start to embrace sphagetti. I could earn big time if i moved to the US but i got family and so i am going to work for 60k again being treated like a dumbass...
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Looks like Walmart has something else special other than there giant parking lots 😂 Jokes aside, it is great to see a good integration of tech and software engineer at this rate there importance become stable in the market where tech updates every day. Great video 👍
8:10 This is misleading. Flash websites were common at the time, and were the most interactive and futuristic for their time. Flash was only depreciated recently.
it depends on where you are located. target and costco might not be headquater at expensive texas or california like where walmart is thus lower cost of living and thus lower pay
Use to go to a tech meetup at Walmart labs hosted in their office. Looked like they were doing pretty cool things there but heard it's closed since then
For the year 2022, Amazon recorded a net loss of $2.722 billion on revenue of $513.98 billion, meaning the company was not profitable in 2022. The company’s profit experienced a sharp decline from its record net income of $33 billion in 2021, ending its 6-year streak of profitability.
The base pay for a 3rd shift stocker at my Walmart is 18.50 including the shift difference. This means without missing if this was salary, a 3rd shift stocker at my Walmart would. 38,480 per year. It’s pretty insane considering all we do is put items on a shelf and cardboard into a baler. Walmart also only allows hourly employees where I work to carry 80 hours of PTO I to the new year and multiple guys will often end the year with well over 100 hours so they make over 40k per year working at Walmart. You add in their wife making make 20-35k at their job and it’s not surprising to see people making it at what use to be low wage dead end jobs that were only for the retired or college kid.
Walmart is the worst company in the world. They don’t have any ethical sense at all. (Was a manager with them for several years, trust me that corporation is pure evil.)
For several decades my dad worked for the Texas Workforce Commission. Basically he would hold hearings to determine if someone was eligible for unemployment benefits. He had a lot of hearings with Walmart. He never shops there unless there’s no other choice. They’re really not a good company
@@lynnzerbenI’m from puerto rico and I don’t shop at walmart unless there is something there that is not available anywhere else and I need it fast. My reasoning for it is they same as your father’s, i.e walmart is a big company and not a good one at that, but also because to us American companies are foreign companies. And I would rather not support american companies over local.
how come if I go to levels fyi , it is not like that... they don't pay that much... besides, I once worked there as a contractor senior software engineer. The ethnicity or race at that company is about 95% one race. They seem to need to churn contractors with different races in order they have good "diversity". The way they did it was hire a contractor for 4 months, let them go, and hire another one, so in one year, their "diversity" is 3x more diverse
@@LogicallyAnswered so I am looking at it now: Senior Software Engineer - E4 Average Total Compensation US$230,291 not that high... maybe we are looking at different things?
Walmart has the largest labor force in the entire world, and they want to keep it. In order to do that and to get the best and brightest to bubble up to the surface, they have to be generous with what they offer.
I wish they focused on Quality over Quantity! I worked as an UNLOADER and we had to hire 10-20 people every month just for that position. They hired the slowest/laziest people on the planet! Eventually most would quit after 1-2 months. Meanwhile me and 3 other guys were unloading trucks faster than a team of 10. Instead of appreciating our hard work, they kept paying us the same as the new hires 😂 We all left after 1 year. That’s walmart for you in a Nutshell
@@siamimam2109 Huh? So you're telling me you're complaining that you got paid the same as everyone else, even though you had an inflated sense of self-worth. And because you didn't get paid more than what you agreed to do the job for you quit, even though you literally just complained about other people doing the same thing.
Hi Walmart worker here. For hourly associates they tend to find every way to screw you out of your raises, I have worked with the company for 3 years and I work with someone who has worked here for 10, we are both paid the same as someone hired yesterday because our pay is usually not adjusted when the starting wage goes up, leaving you stuck at the pay floor.
Well, maybe Walmart can pay high level employees competitive salaries because they pay their “worker ants” only $14.00 per hour. However, the most disturbing salaries are made by the workers who have worked for Walmart for over 10 years, 15 years, even 21 years. Such employees make a little more than $17 per hour!! Unfortunately, as their years of employment increase Walmart as a company has plummeted. Most workers have found themselves in a position where they have too many years with the company to leave. Retirement is a real concern.
Top talent deserve top dollar. Since their contributions can lead to millions or billions in ROI, it is a small chunk of change compared to the value they deliver.
@@karlstrauss2330 That’s what they have been doing for a while now. This is why you see a lot of indian software engineers working at these places because they are much smarter than our average engineer and they’ll work at a competitive wage.
After the one truck loader came up with a better loading stool, I’ve heard more and more about Walmart treating employees better. He saved them hundreds of millions in time.
This video doesnt grasp the concept of SWE levels, on the website you cited it shows a entry level big tech coder earning much more than walmart at the same skill level
To all of the current Walmart (retail) employees that clicked this wondering what kinda BS they were going to spread, USE THE EDUCATION BENEFITS. You can get a bachelors at ZERO COST while working there. It’s not easy to be a student and work full time, but it’s a benefit that (if completed in 4 years) means another $15,000 a year. Use this while you can. If you leave in the middle of the program, you do not owe anything, and your credits are still valid!
I was a Director of Data Science for walmart last year. Your salary and stock numbers are way off. For the Distinguished level it is more like 170k + 75 stock per yr + 30% bonus. The bonus was chopped to 60% of that so call it 20%. The stock includes a hiring bonus and will fall to 35k per yr if they even continue to award it. All in all you could be as high as 270-300k or as low as 160-170 but around 210-230k is the most likely. These would be for the headquarters location in Arkansas, the San Francisco office may have a cola adjustment.
I got more raises job hopping in 6 months than i did working my ass off for 7 years at wally world, they do not pay well. Not to mention that they dont give raises on merit, more than once i heard management discussing who to give raises to and never was merit a reason. They even said one of our hardest workers didnt need one because "young people don't need money". They had two kids. They needed money. Then they were shocked when it got back to them that they were denied a raise based purely on age, effectively taking food from their childrens mouths, and they quit. Imagine telling somone on they ground they have good pay because the ceo is paid well, so their pay is irrelevant. That's not how that works. Walmart pays like shit.
I am not using Walmart. Most people use Amazon and CostCo. So I don’t if it’s paying handsomely to some Indians. Walmart isn’t as popular as other sites like Amazon or Google shopping.
They really dont pay well. For competing with amazon in terms of delivery, through spark or golocal, Sams club employees hardly get paid. Amazon work in Texas is around 20 an hour and Sams curbside is 17 an hour.
I’m not even gonna watch this video, but I bet it doesn’t even touch on the union or of the covert operations that Walmart has done to keep the industry out of low wage.
That's why the prices at Walmart is so expensive. Their bike helmets are much more expensive than Canadiantire. Everything else is at least twice as expensive as a dollar store with the same or similar quality.
Seeing what percentage of front end cashier service is "self-checkout" should tell you all you need to know on what Wal-Mart's 'automation' and 'tech' goals are. My Wal-Mart has a special parking lot just for people who paid online and are "picking up" without entering the store. 🖥️🚘📦
I thought that Walmart invested heavily in analytics early on.That's what gave it an edge over other major retailers before it was the king. The tech culture was probably already there
They pay software engineers that much, and yet their website is still absolute garbage to shop on. Why doesn't it have a simple "show only items from walmart" filter so I can stop seeing all those 3rd party scalper results?!
Walmart isn't a legacy retailer, nor has it been in decades. Legacy retailers don't have end to end supply chain management, and Walmart is one of the larger e-commerce retailers. They've been data driven for decades. That's what helped them displace legacy retailers.
They need to keep up with Amazon or else they're just a showroom and will go bankrupt. People go to Walmart take pictures of the item and buy it online.
They may pay their Tech workers decently, but they still quite literally shit on the employees that make their entire business work: The ones on the floor. I've never seen such a high turn over or level of abuse hurled at the "bottom tier". Last h heard WalMart was fighting 3 class action lawsuits across the country over working conditions and employee treatment.
Walmart has integrity. They made a cool shoe line with Shaq so kids who couldn't afford jordans could still have a nice looking shoe. They are far from the monster Amazon is. Basically another way of saying they actually care about retaining employees.
I think this shift to tech will eat up their margins. As you can see, even to this date, Amazon is not yet profitable. With the embrace of tech, we might see them burn more cash into the red.
Walmart has only cared and will only care about their salaried members. Everyone else get's paid like shit depending on where you live/what Walmart it is. Walmart where I am from is the worst job by my experience. Corporate only cares about Management on salary, not the regular associates.
You know what, man. A lot of people shit on a company like wal mart but go look at what a store manager makes, it’s over $150,000 on average, then look at district and regional managers! The same is true with companies like Home Depot and other retail. The get a bad rap because they employ mostly entry level people with entry level skills and that’s how they get portrayed. My mom works for home depot, she started there in 1996. She got to a point where she stopped taking promotions, but as long as you show up and do more than other people you can rise is those companies. A girl she started with in 1996 is a regional vice president now!
Man, I wish I had a passion for tech like those guys who eat sleep and breathe code. I took a few coding classes in college and didn't really like it (did reasonably well though, B+ grades), and I'm regretting my choice not to go become a software engineer. I may hate what I do, but at least I'll get paid well.
I just checked Levelz. This video is lying. Mid-level at Walmart is $150k, which is below the entry level at almost all major tech companies. Reported.
You don’t understand the history of Walmart. They have always been at the forefront of embracing new technologies since their founding by Sam Walmart. They were the first to streamline their warehousing with barcode tracking, and they had online replenishment for the vendors… in the 80s.
