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Q&A With Walmart Employees
Culture is the foundation of everything we do at Walmart. It’s how we deliver superior customer service, create a great frontline work environment and improve performance in order to achieve our common purpose of saving people money so they can live better. The Walmart culture is one of high performance, and it is how we live out our values. Each of our four values – Service to the Customer, Respect for the Individual, Strive for Excellence and Act with Integrity – has a set of three corresponding behaviors that, when practiced daily by every associate, can help us deliver business results and create a culture of inclusion.
How employees describe working at Walmart
Confortable with the managers coworkers and environment
Review from Product Dept
I love offering customer service and I love working with a team that values good customer service as well.
Review from HR Dept
I work in fresh grocery and im delighted to help customers every day
Review from Business Development Dept
The temp boss was cool then left after I was hired
Review from Operations Dept
It varies from site to site. Some run like a well oiled machine, while others seem like they might implode at any moment
Review from Operations Dept
What it's like to work at Walmart
- Walmart employees generally work 8.6 hrs a day
- Employees at Walmart report the work pace is comfortably fast
- On a typical day, employees at Walmart have 1 meeting
- 75% of Walmart employees look forward to interacting with their team every day
- Walmart employees most often take 0-10 paid vacation and sick days each year
- 52% of Walmart employees report they are happy with their work life balance
- Walmart employees typically get valuable feedback on how to improve at work Every Week
- 61% of Walmart employees call their work environment positive
Q&A With Walmart Employees
IDX: 25 TOT: 149
How long after an interview at Walmart does it take to hear back?
Less than 48 hours
2 days to a week
A DAY USUALLY
How much diversity is there among employees at Walmart?
Very diverse
None
There is diversity with an undercurrent of favoritism
What do people at Walmart think about the CEO? What do they do well and what can they improve?
They think positive
Generally that the current CEO has the company headed in the right direction.
He is out of touch and has no idea that the ideas he has implemented are failures.
Why work for Walmart?
Good place to retire from
I'm not sure about anyone else, but I just needed a job. It didn't matter where, I had to make a living. I chose to try Walmart because it is solid, they are everywhere, and there's lots of things a person can do for work at Walmart. If I can't perform my regular job duties for any reason, they will find me something to do.
Wal-Mart is one of the fastest growing retailers and offers a lot of possibilities for growth as an individual.
How helpful was your Sales team when you were first hired at Walmart?
Extremely helpful
I received very little help with the exception of a few employees.
They gave me wrong information, and laughed when I got in trouble.
What's the office vibe like at Walmart?
Terrible. I have never seen such a negative environment.
Stressed
Calm
What's the best part of your job at Walmart?
Meeting and interacting with everyone
Everything love doing it all
Time to go home
What would cause you to leave your job at Walmart?
I have been there too long. They would have to fire me to make me leave
I didn't want to.
They fired me because i applied for partial unemployment when they cut my hours all the way down
How common are layoffs at Walmart?
Recently, too common.
Real Common
Not common at all
How's the work pace at Walmart?
movin on
Stressed.
It's moderate in a small town
What needs to change to make the company culture better at Walmart?
I'm a CSM. We are constantly understaffed period we get very little support from management. I feel like an army of One.
Giving incentives for associates to strive for. Financially compensating those that do. Pay differentials for stepping up and working hard
Our managment team is a bunch of bullys.
What's going wrong and how can it be improved at Walmart?
Your job gets eliminated and you lose your pay
Toxic management, lazy ass people, to much red tape, too much by the book, a raise every 6 months would be cool,and there is much $$$ wasted
Treated with respect
Why do you feel undervalued and what would make you feel better about your compensation at Walmart?
Left out on to many minimum wage raise's. New hires make wthin 40 cent to the same amount after being on thE job 7 years
better pay for long term workers, the health ins coverage does not pay for a lot of things or has a very large amount that we has to pay
Older associate are treated differently. The younger ones stand around or hang out with boyfriends or friends. There is favortism.
How often do employees get raises at Walmart?
Not often,but today I was told that corporate needs to approve it first which I don't believe. Plus Im not on there good Gracie's as we speak.So I'm pretty sure a raise won't be here anytime.Just being honest that's how they work.
Walmart does not give raises
Never
How innovative is Walmart?
Good
At least as innovative as anyone can be when everything's already been done.
Its working its way up there
How's the feedback proccess at Walmart?
Management at our store really doesn’t give you any feedback except when you do something wrong then you are called into the office and told about what you did wrong.
Feedback can be used to support you and your growth at Walmart, developing you into a positive contributing employee, or used as a tool to twist the nature of your experience with individuals or your job role. It depends on who's writing the feedback and their motive.
Well, associates tend to talk with the store manager
How does Walmart make decisions around promotions?
Performance reports
Most are from within the company and as a result of your efforts as evaluated by your management team.
Its a little shady
What do you wish you knew before starting at Walmart?
Being stressed
I knew what Walmart was like but was desperate for employment. What I didn’t know was how cruel the customers can be.
How rude customers could be.
How hard is it to get promoted at Walmart?
Depends on whom you work underneath. Sometimes never.
That varies from store to store.
All depends on your attendance,work performance and ability to do job applied for.
What's the work from home policy like at Walmart?
I haven't had the opportunity to utilize that program.
None that I’m aware of you work at the store. Not sure about warehouse or home-office individuals.
Doesn’t apply to me.
How's the vacation policy at Walmart?
PTO is earned based on your position and tenure.
PTO is ineffective because you must have approved from management before you can use it
Use PTO time if they approve time off
What part of Walmart's business is growing fastest? What part is having difficulties?
Online grocery pick-up. It's rolling out to all stores after success in test stores. The difficulties is the Wal-Mart culture regarding in store management and hourly associates.
Online is out pacing brick and mortar.
Online is growing fastest and online is having difficulties.
What's the interview process like at Walmart?
Simple and short
20 years ago and I was so I application interview with the manager if your light received a job offer or not
Intense and comprehensive.
What do your coworkers need to improve and how could you work together better at Walmart?
Meetings are rare and not a lot of information is put out in them anyway
poor performance needs to be addressed across the board. Those who go above and beyond need to be treated more fairly. stop favortism
Striving for excellence is a goal but there is no incentive.
What is the PTO policy at Walmart?
Upon management approval employees can request off on days the company has available
1hour of PPTO per 40 hours worked.
5 points and can be fired...however it depends on if you are a favorite!
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Should I work at Walmart?
28% of Walmart employees would encourage their friends to become coworkers, whereas 21% are neutral and 51% would not recommend working at Walmart to their friends.
| 28% | Promoters |
|---|---|
| 21% | Passive |
| 51% | Detractors |
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