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Probably. Similarly, Walmart has a great eng org for a company of its size.

As someone who works there, as a Data Scientist, I can't scroll past this without expressing my disagreement. I've never seen a worse eng org. Coming from Uber, it was and is shocking how dysfunctional Walmart tech is. Maybe my standards are too high.

Perhaps your opinion is a bit more up-to-date than mine and perhaps you are more critical :-)

But an important part that I wish I *bolded* at this point, is *for a company its size*.

Yea, fair enough. This is a great point. My experience has definitely been that company size is inversely correlated with ... functionality of engineering org.

When I temporarily lost access to my phone, I contacted Walmart dot Com Support. They solemnly informed me that they had no means of overriding MFA for my account or helping me to recover it without the phone.

Support told me that I was better off abandoning the account and creating a new one.

While I did recover my phone, I decided that it was best to simply stop doing business with Walmart, and I haven’t missed them one bit!

Didn’t they start that from acquiring jet.com?

IIRC, they revamped Walmart.com around the time of the Jet.com acquisition, so that probably had something to do with it.

Cool! I had a friend working there at the time. First time I heard about F#

Really? Walmart does some spectacularly stupid, costly, and obnoxiously customer hostile stuff.

But they do it with much uptime, and very low latency!

I know this is tongue-in-cheek, but yes, all I was saying is their eng org. I'm not speaking on their Customer Service or business practices.

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