{"id":965500,"date":"2025-10-01T11:27:59","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T05:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=965500"},"modified":"2025-10-01T11:27:59","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T05:57:59","slug":"2-things-that-walmarts-evp-of-global-tech-platforms-looks-for-in-engineers-during-hiring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/10\/01\/2-things-that-walmarts-evp-of-global-tech-platforms-looks-for-in-engineers-during-hiring\/","title":{"rendered":"2 things that Walmart&#8217;s EVP of Global Tech Platforms looks for in engineers during hiring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Walmart\u2019s executive VP of Global Tech Platforms, Sravana Karnati, has revealed the two primary traits he looks for while hiring engineers. In a statement to Business Insider, Karnati said that while hiring engineers, he looks \u201cfor the fundamentals and ability to learn.\u201d The Indian-origin executive of the US-based retail major, who has over 25 years of leadership experience at companies including Amazon and Disney, said that he has \u201cnever hired a candidate for specific knowledge.\u201d However, he emphasised the importance of candidates possessing domain expertise. According to the executive, anyone in a technical position, including project managers, must understand the architecture, dependencies, and associated risks of their work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walmart\u2019s executive VP of Global Tech Platforms, Sravana Karnati, has revealed the two primary traits he looks for while hiring engineers. In a statement to Business Insider, Karnati said that while hiring engineers, he looks \u201cfor the fundamentals and ability to learn.\u201d The Indian-origin executive of the US-based retail major, who has over 25 years of leadership experience at companies including Amazon and Disney, said that he has \u201cnever hired a candidate for specific knowledge.\u201d However, he emphasised the importance of candidates possessing domain expertise. According to the executive, anyone in a technical position, including project managers, must understand the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-965500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=965500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=965500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=965500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=965500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}