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Most of these Walmart write-ups come from Software Engineers (91), then Product Managers (21) and Data Scientists (13). The most reported rounds are the technical phone screen (47), the hiring manager screen (23), the product sense round (16) and the system design round (13).

139 interview notes · updated Oct 2026

Walmart·Software Engineer·Technical Phone Screen

May 2026
Walmart Labs SWE interview with a classic bracket validation problem. Pretty standard stuff but worth writing up since the stack-based approach has some gotchas if you're not careful about the matching logic.
  • Given a string containing bracket characters like '(', ')', '[', ']', '{', '}', write a function to determine whether all brackets are properly matched and closed. You must solve it in a single linear pass.

“I knew to use a stack immediately, which helped.”

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Walmart·Software Engineer·Onsite - Behavioral / Leadership

May 2026
Walmart Labs SE interview has a behavioral segment after the coding and code review rounds. Pretty standard stuff but they want real examples, not vague answers.
  • Why do you want to join this team or company specifically?
  • Tell me about a project you're most proud of.
  • Describe a significant disagreement you had at work and how you resolved it.
  • Talk about a failure you experienced and what you took away from it.
  • How do you handle ambiguity or requirements that keep shifting?
  • How do you give and receive feedback?
  • How have you mentored others, or how have you been mentored yourself?

“I had an answer ready but it felt thin.”

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Walmart·Software Engineer·Technical Phone Screen

May 2026
Two-round technical screen for a full stack role, ended in a quick rejection. The coding round went okay but the frontend portion was rough and I never got to a working solution, which I think sealed my fate.
  • Build a frontend component that fetches and displays data from an API.
  • Process a list of inputs and produce a computed output, with multiple follow-up parts.
  • What do you enjoy about your current role or company?
  • How large is your current team or project?
  • What technologies does your current team use?

“This is where things fell apart.”

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Walmart·Software Engineer·Onsite - System Design / Architecture

May 2026
System design round for a software engineer role, just one question about designing a video platform at YouTube scale. Pretty straightforward as far as prompts go, but there's a lot of ground to cover if you let it sprawl.
  • Design a video streaming platform similar to YouTube. Walk through the architecture.

“There's so much surface area here it's easy to spin out.”

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Walmart·Software Engineer·Onsite - Behavioral / Leadership

May 2026
Behavioral round at Walmart Labs for a software engineer role. Just the one question but it had some weight to it, the kind where you realize halfway through your answer that you picked a weak example.
  • Describe a situation where you used data to drive a significant decision. What data did you gather, how did you analyze it, and what impact did it have on the outcome?

“I had a decent story but I spent too long on the setup and rushed the actual analysis part, which is probably what they cared about most.”

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Walmart·Data Scientist·Technical Phone Screen

May 2026
Walmart Labs data science interview that was heavier on coding than I expected. The core problem was a sorted array intersection thing, framed around matching user IDs for some marketing analytics use case. The duplicate follow-up is where it got real.
  • Given two sorted integer arrays with no duplicates, return all index pairs where the values are equal. For example, arr1=[1,4,5,6,7,9] and arr2=[1,2,3,6,9] should return [[0,0],[3,3],[5,4]].
  • What edge cases should be considered for the array intersection problem?
  • Now modify your solution to handle duplicates in both arrays and return all valid index pairs. For example, arr1=[1,1,4,5,6,6,6,7,9] and arr2=[1,2,3,6,6,9,9].

“Two pointers, pretty textbook.”

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Walmart·Data Scientist·Technical Phone Screen

May 2026
Walmart Labs data science interview with a string manipulation coding question. Pretty straightforward session, they cared more about whether you could talk through complexity and edge cases than just getting the answer.
  • Given a string, return the index of the first character that doesn't repeat anywhere else in the string. Return -1 if none exists.

“Two passes: count frequencies first, then scan again for the first count-of-one character.”

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Walmart·Data Analyst·Hiring Manager Screen

May 2026
Walmart Labs Data Analyst interview that kicked off with the classic trio of motivation questions. Nothing technical from what I remember of this round, just them sizing you up as a person and figuring out if you actually want to be there.
  • Why do you want to work at Walmart specifically?
  • Why are you interested in this Data Analyst role?
  • Why should we hire you for this position?

“I had an answer ready but it felt thin coming out of my mouth.”

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Walmart·Software Engineer·Online Assessment (OA)

May 2026
Took an OA with a string manipulation problem that combined palindrome and k-periodicity constraints. Had the right idea with Union-Find but fumbled a one-line bug in the join logic and got zero points on it. Still stings.
  • Given a string of length n and an integer k, find the minimum number of character changes needed to make the string both a palindrome and k-periodic simultaneously.

“My approach was Union-Find: group indices that must share the same character (from both the palindrome constraint and the periodicity constraint), then for each group just count how many characters aren't the majority character.”

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Walmart·Data Scientist·Technical Phone Screen

May 2026
Interviewed for a Data Scientist role at Walmart Labs and got a technical question about LLM inference that I thought I was prepared for until I actually had to explain it out loud.
  • During LLM inference, the same prompt can produce different outputs each time. Where does that randomness come from? Walk through the role of temperature, top-k and top-p sampling, and how greedy decoding fits into the picture.

“I knew the surface-level answer but fumbled when they pushed on the interaction between temperature and top-p.”

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