Walmart interview notes, page 6 of 14

“I spent the first chunk of time just trying to figure out what they were even asking.” 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.

“The structure trips you up for a second because it's not a normal dict-of-lists you can just throw at pd.DataFrame().” The rest of the author's notes on Data Scientist 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.

“Took me a minute to even parse what the output was supposed to look like.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer 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.

“Mind went completely blank.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer 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.

“I blanked for a second on the pool volume and just anchored to whatever number felt right.” 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 by trying to segment by demand and margin, which felt right, but I fumbled when they pushed me on how I'd actually prioritize between high-volume low-margin stuff like groceries versus lower-volume higher-margin items.” 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.

“Seemed straightforward but I spent too long just writing the query instead of asking what GMV actually means in their context.” 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 is less a question and more a whole exercise.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Walmart, Onsite - Coding / Algorithms round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“My approach was a monotonic stack where I'd pop the top if it was smaller than the incoming digit and had an odd frequency, figuring that'd maximize the result.” 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 one took me a second to scope properly.” The rest of the author's notes on Technical Program Manager 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.