This is just a rant. I am so done with Walmart. It's my first job. I joined a little over two years ago, off campus hiring. I've been moved 3 teams over the course of last 2 years and 4 months. 2 teams in the first 1 year. I was extremely scared because I was not learning anything. My manager then was unreachable because he was managing a huge team. I used to travel from my hometown to bangalore every single month to reach out to him and get him to notice me since we were all still working from home then.
Thankfully later, I have been moved to a team were there was consistent work. The same begging for tasks continued, after about 3-4 months after doing nothing, work started coming in. Small stuff, writing test cases, CCM cleanups, CRQ creation and stuff, again took it to my (new) manager ans he said since I was new to the team and to get me used to the process and get a hang of things I am being given these tasks(fair enough!) . And then eventually some good features. My team in India has just 2 people other than me, one of them who is a TL is one of the meanest people ever. If I ask a question he will laugh at my face and say you should know this by now. They are not tech related questions which I can google and get answer to. This created a fear in me, I do my own research and only after I know that I have no other way of getting an answer I reach out to them. My US team is practically unreachable because of the timings. They don't work a minute after 6pm. There have been times when I scheduled calls at 3am 4am so that I can get some help. 11pm 12am meetings are common.
After about 1 year of learning I thought I am able to finally finish tasks without a lot of help from people. And last month during the "auto promotion" my manager rejected my promotion- reason: not proactive enough. I was blindsided, I was not given an opportunity explain my side of the coin. He has no context of my work, I practically have 2 managers sprint planning and work stuff with my US manager and other things likr promotion and appraisal with my manager here in India. My manager in India said he has taken this decision based on the feedback from my stakeholders - TL and manager in US
I have no hopes from my TL but I was surprised my US manager gave a negative feedback because he was in the loop regarding my efforts to learn and deliver tasks. I have been trying to schedule a one on one with him since the promotions happened. Every time he cancels it last minute.
I'm done. I have decided to look for opportunities else where. I have a few interviews scheduled. But no time to prepare curtsy horrible WLB at Walmart. Well, what do I except? Not much really. Just wanted to rant it out to someone I guess.
Horrible WLB No visibility and recognition Ruined mental health and peace of mind And that's the story of my life
It's going to be okay buddy. A job is just that, a job. Take care of your well-being first.
Bruh leave ASAP. They will put you in PIP if they have stopped your auto promotion.
That's the plan. I have a few interviews lined up.
What I see is a lot of senior folks in the team ( who were working from Walmart from its initial days in India or who created the teams ) were true to the good old Walmart culture we heard before joining 3 years back. But since then most of these senior guys have left and are replaced by managers and team leads hired from other companies. These are the culprits for this downward spiral. They just want to get things done and get their promotion done at the expense of everyone else. Especially in my team, the TL and managers who left were so supportive but these guys who replaced them are real piece of work.
First job for most of us always bad. It's nothing do with Walmart. Culture shock, sudden lack of freedom, introduction to cut throat behaviour... It all adds up.
If the same things happened later in life, which will most likely do, out way of handling it will be differeny. Even in GV you can find views of WITCH being good and bad. Who is right?.. everyone is
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fck this culture. this is a definition of a toxic startup, which most Indian startups are
