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Re:Wal-Mart to cut 200 e-commerce jobs in California by geodel on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @03:20PM (#13475083)
From linkedin I gather they have around 3000 people. Not sure if that includes jet.com employees also. So <1% are laid off. I got a call few months back for position in Reston VA. They never proceeded after initial call.

Edit: It should <10% or ~7% as another commenter corrected me.

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Re:Wal-Mart to cut 200 e-commerce jobs in California by cm2012 on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @03:30PM (#13475171)
200 of 3000 is around 7%, not .7%
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Re:Wal-Mart to cut 200 e-commerce jobs in California by geodel on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @03:35PM (#13475220)
You are of course right. I was talking to my brother about some other layoffs and there it was around 1% and so I just plopped that number here without calculating.
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Re:Wal-Mart to cut 200 e-commerce jobs in California by dbg31415 on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @04:54PM (#13475980)
As much as I dislike the move, it's pretty common for companies to stack rank / vitality curve and cut the bottom ~5% every year. On one hand... sure let's free up some space for better performers. On the other... not likely that new blood off the street will initially do better than staff who are already trained on your product...
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