Walmart interview notes, page 2 of 14

“I went straight to the data model and kind of forgot to scope the problem first.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Walmart, Onsite - System Design / Architecture round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I rambled through targeting, bidding, reporting, and attribution and it felt like I was just listing buzzwords.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Walmart, Onsite - Product Sense / Strategy round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“It's the classic max subarray problem but you also have to track where the subarray begins and ends, not just the sum.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Walmart, Online Assessment (OA) round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This is a big one and I underestimated how much ground it covers.” The rest of the author's notes on Data Scientist interview at Walmart, Onsite - System Design / Architecture round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I started with funnel segmentation which was the right instinct, but I jumped to hypotheses way too fast before actually scoping whether the shift was real or a tracking artifact.” The rest of the author's notes on Data Analyst interview at Walmart, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This tripped me up more than I expected.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Walmart, Onsite - Behavioral / Leadership round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This one broke me a little.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Walmart, Online Assessment (OA) round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I fumbled a bit here because I started too tactical, talking about launch briefs and positioning docs, and the interviewer clearly wanted something more end-to-end.” The rest of the author's notes on Product Manager interview at Walmart, Onsite - Cross-functional / Panel round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This is the whole interview basically, wrapped in one prompt.” The rest of the author's notes on Product Manager interview at Walmart, Onsite - Product Sense / Strategy round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I started with advertiser-side metrics like ROAS and CPM, then tried to cover publisher-side fill rate and eCPM.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Walmart, Onsite - Product Sense / Strategy round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.