Sam's Club·Software Engineer·Onsite - Multi Round
Mar 2025
Went through the full Sam's Club SDE loop: online assessment, a coding round, system design, and behavioral. Took a few months of cold applying before a recruiter bit, and there was actually a mid-process pivot where the original role rejected me but a different team picked me up for the final round. Ended with an offer.
- Given a list of products with custom attributes, filter and return only the products that match a specified criteria.
- Solve a custom variation of the classic balanced parentheses problem.
- Design a mobile notification system where users subscribe to retailers and receive push alerts when those retailers run special events like sales.
- Frontend debugging task: identify and fix issues in a provided React codebase.
- Behavioral round: describe situations where you navigated challenges, led through difficulty, or drove outcomes on a team.
“The prompt was deliberately vague, which I didn't fully appreciate at first.”