Re:Amazon soars to more than 341K employees, adding 110K peo...
by rifung on Friday February 03, 2017 @03:04PM
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> Unless Amazon really fucks something up, Walmart will never be able to attract the tech talent that Amazon does. Nobody wants to work for Walmart.
Disclaimer: I am probably biased because I used to work for Amazon
I'm not sure I agree with that. Amazon already has such a poor reputation but they don't seem to have any trouble attracting people to work there. Considering the turnover* there, the fact they are able to grow this quickly must mean there are ways to get people to join despite having a poor reputation.
Walmart Labs on the other hand has a good reputation so you could even argue that if Walmart plays its cards right, it actually has an advantage in that aspect of attracting tech talent. I mean they even use Clojure..
* I admit this is anecdotal but I live in Seattle and used to work there and the average tenure is fairly low from what I've seen.
Disclaimer: I am probably biased because I used to work for Amazon
I'm not sure I agree with that. Amazon already has such a poor reputation but they don't seem to have any trouble attracting people to work there. Considering the turnover* there, the fact they are able to grow this quickly must mean there are ways to get people to join despite having a poor reputation.
Walmart Labs on the other hand has a good reputation so you could even argue that if Walmart plays its cards right, it actually has an advantage in that aspect of attracting tech talent. I mean they even use Clojure..
* I admit this is anecdotal but I live in Seattle and used to work there and the average tenure is fairly low from what I've seen.