Posts with tag: amazon

This is for real, Walmart didn’t just hire a few ex-Amazon folks to bring in new ideas. They’ve basically handed the keys of the tech org to amazon’s second-string playbook writers and are acting like it’s innovation. No, it's not. Overnight we got flooded with vps, svps, and a brand new grp director title no one asked for, positioned (in a weird way) above the senior directors who actually built and ran things, who know things, who are engine behind it.

Nothing is functional. what we did get was more layers, more power-hoarding, more execs who treat walmart like an off-brand aws. all the people brought over from amazon somehow made it through these layoffs untouched. meanwhile, long-tenured folks who kept systems stable for years got dumped like legacy code.

all this f*cking streamlining will make things even slower. decisions now go through more decks, more meetings, more middle layers, and none of them actually know how walmart’s tech stack or culture works. they’re just replicating the amazon model in a company that doesn’t have the same DNA... and it’s burning everyone out.

this aint a transformation. it's a clear and pure hostile takeover wearing a Walmart badge...