I applied online. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Walmart (Bengaluru) in Sep 2018
Interview
The process involved written programming questions, algorithm solving, low level design, system design questions etc.
The whole process took a lot of time and it was not worth it, since their offer was below market standards.
I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Walmart (Bentonville, AR) in May 2018
Interview
I was excited about interviewing for Walmart when I first got the call but later realized I just wasted 1.5 hours of my time. A recruiter reached out to me asking if I would be interested in a senior role and immediately set up a virtual meeting the very next day without asking my availability which I felt was very unprofessional. I accepted the interview since I didn't want to let it go and thought it would be mostly behavioral/resume walk through since they didn't give me time for preparation. I was sent a meeting invite on zoom.
On the day of interview, two people joined the meeting who are Indians (they have very strong indian accent). They started off with the interview even without asking me about how my day is going etc., They asked several hit/miss type questions to which they expected bookish answers. There was no encouragement and didn't even say if I was right/wrong for any answer. Then they asked me to share screen and gave 2 coding questions which were fairly easy. I took some time in answering one of them since the interviewer was reluctant to agree different ways of solving it and expected me to solve it the way he wanted.
Through out the interview process, all I could hear from them were "Oh! This is very easy. Why are you taking so long?", "Anyone can solve these even without preparation" etc., which is so discouraging.
I work at a big firm where people around are so encouraging, positive and expected the same from Walmart. But to my surprise, the experience was so bad that I wouldn't have dared to go and work for them even if they offered me a position.
I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Walmart (Bengaluru) in Aug 2018
Interview
After my profile got shortlisted recruiter called and scheduled an interview and explained the interview process in mail itself(I have copied it below).
"We intend to cover 5 rounds and details are given below: Each round would last for an 1 hour on an average.
1st round is coding round (example: removing duplicates in a set of numbers OR sum of a prime numbers in given set of numbers with the optimized code and it should be clean and bug free code)
2nd round is Problem Solving and Coding using DS and Algorithms.
3rd round is Software Design (example: design a Twitter OR Facebook).
4th round is System Architecture and Design (example: design a Twitter OR Facebook)
5th round is Hiring Manager"
When recruiter call next business day as I am not working in Bangalore I asked to arrange logistic() so he told will have 1 telephonic round and then rest will be onsite. I agreed as before spending on logistic they will make sure candidate is up to the mark.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
When I have attended the interview I was surprised to see the level of questions and their expectation, none of the question was aligned with the process recruiter explained over mail all are theoretical java question which I remembered I prepared when I was fresher and in college.
Trust me no DS, ALGO, Problem solving.
I am sure if we have to go to service base companies, interviews would be like this and people focus on those skills only rather DS algo and problem solving, but didn't expect from product base company, I ended up wasting 30 mins and thanks I didn't had to waste full day by travelling to their office .
and I can guess what quality of work they might be doing, if just language.