Hah! Sorry about that. You are right, it is poorly formatted. If I create one next month, I 'll make sure to clean it up and take yoru feedback into consideration :) But let me answer some of your points (that I didn't do properly in my post)

- We work very hard in hiring smart people. Trying to continuously improve our hiring process and make it better. When I say the possibilities are limitless, I mean that Walmart is one of those rare companies where you can play with large distributed systems or also move teams and create awesome mobile apps, or (I believe) you can also play with robots (I have seen them, they wear hats).

- Hard problems (in our context) is improving processes across the board and creating services that need to be fast (at a very high level) while still taking into consideration our legacy systems.

- I hope nobody looks for inelegant solutions to problems. But I have seen complex solutions to simple problems many times. We are not looking for that. We are looking for simple solutions for complex problems (but you know, simple is hard)

- Hey it's better to say best and the brightest than "Rockstars" or "Ninjas" or "Jedis" (actually I take that back, I like jedis).

- Heh, you are right I didn't mention any technology we use :). We use Kafka, Cassandra, Neo4j, Storm/Spark/Flink, Hadoop, Apache Cordova for some mobile, etc

- And yes, parts of the work has to do with creating distributed services, but not all of it, Reston is a small team so far and we are also working hard to create a great culture. Thanks!