{"id":6501,"date":"2019-01-24T18:11:07","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T18:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/?p=6501"},"modified":"2019-04-11T00:52:48","modified_gmt":"2019-04-11T00:52:48","slug":"culture-showdown-amazon-vs-walmart-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/culture-showdown-amazon-vs-walmart-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Culture Showdown: Amazon vs. Walmart"},"content":{"rendered":"

Who will win in the battle for dominance between Walmart\u00a0<\/strong>and Amazon<\/strong>? Whoever comes out on top, it will likely determine the future of retail\u2026 and it may all come down to online grocery sales.<\/p>\n

The match began in 2016 when Walmart, the nearly 70-year-old brick-and-mortar discount retailer, purchased Jet.com<\/a>\u00a0in a bid to infringe into the world of e-commerce. Standing dominant in that world is Amazon, who hit back at Walmart a year later by purchasing all 479 locations of the high-end Whole Foods grocery chain. However, it soon became apparent that customers preferred the \u201cclick to collect\u201d method over straight shipping \u2013 no matter how fast the delivery. But for that method to take hold, you need an abundance of physical locations. This puts Walmart, who can boast of a store location within 10 miles of ninety percent of Americans, at a distinct advantage over Amazon.<\/p>\n

Walmart has been gaining<\/a>\u00a0on Amazon\u2019s more established online presence. A Deutsche Bank analysis from October of 2018 predicted that Walmart\u2019s 11 percent market share in the e-commerce world would swell to 17 percent by 2025 \u2013 but would still be dominated by Amazon by that point. The online giant plans to defend its market share by expanding<\/a>\u00a0both the Whole Foods footprint in 2019 and, potentially, the number of Amazon Go locations by 2021.<\/p>\n

But how is the view from the inside for both companies? How does Amazon\u2019s company culture stack up against Walmart\u2019s company culture? While Walmart may be catching up in terms of sales, it\u2019s clear that employees of one company feel much more satisfied with their culture, which we can see thanks to data harvested from Comparably\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0anonymous employee queries.<\/p>\n

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Amazon employees are generally positive about the company\u2019s culture. \u201cPretty much everybody I interface seems to enjoy their work,\u201d says one. Another writes, \u201cThe scale and scope of responsibilities even at an entry-level corporate role is fantastic\u2026 the people you work with are generally top-tier individuals in terms of capability and accountability.\u201d But another offers this advice: \u201cIf you\u2019re going to make it there you have to self-promote like mad, and focus on optics rather than your actual job duties.\u201d<\/p>\n

As for Walmart\u2019s culture, one employee writes, \u201cEveryone has little interest in what they are personally doing, and the company itself doesn\u2019t try much to change that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Female employees rank Amazon\u2019s company culture slightly lower at a solid B, but agree with Walmart\u2019s C rating.<\/p>\n

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Ranked by Forbes last year as the richest man in the world, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is also one of the world\u2019s most famous chief executives, and is thought of as highly driven. \u201cThose who work with him feel he can be difficult. But it is because he knows, or wants to know, all aspects,\u201d says one Amazon employee. Another writes, \u201cI think he\u2019s out of touch with the demands on the associates at the fulfillment level\u2026 the employee is just a number.\u201d<\/p>\n

After leading their Sam\u2019s Club division, Doug McMillon was made the fifth CEO of Walmart in 2014. He began with the company as a teenager in 1984. While one employee writes that the general feeling is that \u201cthe current CEO has the company headed in the right direction,\u201d McMillon is also accused by his workers of being out of touch: \u201c(He) has no idea that the ideas he has implemented are failures.\u201d<\/p>\n

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When asked what they thought of their pay, one Walmart employee answered that after implementing an increase in starting wage, Walmart \u201cimmediately cut hours to compensate for that increase.\u201d<\/p>\n

One Amazon employee writes, \u201cVery well paid. Satisfied.\u201d \u00a0Another cautions that \u201cpart of your \u2018total compensation\u2019 is a productivity bonus, so it\u2019s highly common to hear that your building hit some landmark for most packages shipped since the building opened, but that you didn\u2019t hit the arbitrary goal percentage, so no bonus for you.\u201d<\/p>\n

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In terms of perks and benefits, one Amazon employee writes, \u201cIn general, Amazon has a principle of \u2018frugality\u2019 so they don\u2019t give employees anything they consider a \u2018frill\u2019 but of course you get health insurance, a very low matching 401k, $100 of Amazon goods each year, and the stock.\u201d<\/p>\n

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When sorted by female employees, Amazon rates a slightly higher gender score than the average at 73. Walmart\u2019s gender score remains the same when filtered by gender.<\/p>\n

An Amazon worker writes, \u201cThe majority of tech roles (are) filled by males. Amazon is making progress, but still has a long way to go regarding equal treatment and internalized sexism.\u201d Another employee tells us, regarding the company\u2019s diversity efforts, \u201cI have\u2026 seen notable changes from my first 2-3 years with the company. However, it is a mixed bag.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cI don\u2019t believe this company will ever get better. The higher-ups look down on us,\u201d says one Walmart worker. But another writes, \u201cThey have the resources and infrastructure to stay in the game for the long haul.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cFulfillment centers are growing extremely fast,\u201d says one Amazon employee. Another points to logistics as \u201cgrowing like crazy.\u201d Amazon \u201cwill survive and conquer,\u201d writes another.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Who will win in the battle for dominance between Walmart\u00a0and Amazon? Whoever comes out on top, it will likely determine the future of retail\u2026 and it may all come down to online grocery sales. The match began in 2016 when Walmart, the nearly 70-year-old brick-and-mortar discount retailer, purchased Jet.com\u00a0in a bid to infringe into the … Read full-story <\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6523,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,8],"tags":[184,11,86,323],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6501"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6502,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6501\/revisions\/6502"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}