Pros
Walmart has a very competitive pay range for assitant managers, Co-Managers and Store Managers, when compared to other retail. Department managers also get competitive pay. Health Benefits for all employees are very good, especially if something severe happens. Benefits are not designed for the millions of employees to go to the doctor evertime they get a runny nose.
Cons
Walmart has hired way too many people from outside the company into Senior management levels. People who have never actually worked in a store and want to do things like they did in thier previous company. They all also want to run thier own "programs" so you end up doing the company program, the Market manager program, each of the market team's programs, the regional's programs, the Divisional manager's program, and by the time you get this done, someone new from outside the company is hired and you start over. Sam Walton never had to deal with the volume and pressures of todays Walmart, but neither have the Regional managers and Divisional managers that are working there today. Sam Walton certainly would have had to adapt to todays expectations, but he beleived in promoting from within so that people that were on the frontline and knew how things worked moved up and made decisions, not people that read a book and became experts on how to run a walmart. Market managers make or break you. If you cross them, you are done, regardless of what you bring to the company. Hours are sometimes inconcievable. Your job is never done. There is always something that will prevent you from days off, or taking a vacation.
