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Re:Amazon soars to more than 341K employees, adding 110K peo... by geodel on Friday February 03, 2017 @02:18PM (#13562402)
Besides Walmart laid off 200 people from their E-commerce division. At best they hire for some off-the-shelf IT skills.
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Re:Amazon soars to more than 341K employees, adding 110K peo... by gumby on Friday February 03, 2017 @02:25PM (#13562463)
Walmart back end and Walmart labs are completely different, just like Amazon's Lab126, A9, and web site are completely different.

However I don't know that many people who are/were happy at 126, while to my surprise everyone I've met who works at Walmart labs seems happy with it.

(not much of a wal mart customer, BTW)

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Re:Amazon soars to more than 341K employees, adding 110K peo... by geodel on Friday February 03, 2017 @04:16PM (#13563395)
Walmart labs is may be a little more 'technical' than current Walmart IT. From what I see on their website, it is developing bunch of Javascript frameworks etc. Nothing wrong with that but it is not comparable to likes of Amazon.
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