Senior Back End Engineer Interview Experience - Hoboken, New Jersey
Process
A brief phone screening was followed a few weeks later by an hour-long HackerRank video interview with a coding challenge. The coding test was an interesting problem, but doable in the available time. We discussed experience and details of the available jobs.
This was followed by an onsite interview. It was a bit of a marathon, with four interviews with four different developers over four hours. The people were nice and friendly, asking more detailed questions on background and experience, and how to approach design and operational tasks. Each interviewer presented either a coding or design test.
Everyone was available to answer questions about the job, the company, and the environment.
Questions
Questions about how to diagnose a service that is randomly crashing on the cloud.
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Walmart's interview process for their Senior Back End Engineer roles in Hoboken, New Jersey is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.
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Walmart Work Experiences
- 4.0Unexpectedly, the best place I ever worked, and maybe will ever workSenior Software Engineer • Current EmployeeHoboken, New Jersey, United StatesJune 29, 2023Pros: A solid, stable, recession-proof business deeply rooted in American culture and responsible for sustaining the lives and survival of 50 million+. Laser-focused on competition with Amazon. LeetCode is generally not a requirement to join Walmart. People from the South are generally very pleasant. RSUs are now vesting quarterly and distributed in a manner that encourages long-term employment at the company, as opposed to forced attrition at Amazon. 401k with a 100% match on 6% of your income. Companies that do match usually give a 50% match on 6%. Cash bonus of 20% for my role/level, but it is only given yearly. This is 401k matched too, so additional can be earned from it. Money talks here, no frills. EDLP. When you tell people you work for Walmart, they immediately think you are poor, and I appreciate that effect. But total compensation for me is ~$260k this year and expecting $275k next year. Big tech may pay another $100k on that, but Walmart did not have mass layoffs of tech workers, and their stock did not crash.Cons: 2,000,000 people Really bad, unavoidable politics. Stringent change management and security protocols. Rampant loopholes in change management and security protocols as a result of them being too strict. Difficulty communicating or collaborating with other teams at Walmart. Slow pace, many blockers.
- 5.0Great Pay, Culture, Then WalmartSoftware Developer • Former EmployeeHoboken, New Jersey, United StatesOctober 23, 2025Pros: Great pay, culture, and massive autonomy to be great!Cons: Things changed once they were acquired by Walmart.
- 3.0Good Pay, Poor BalanceManager - Automation Engineering • Former EmployeeHoboken, New Jersey, United StatesAugust 28, 2024Pros: Pay is very good. People are kind.Cons: Poor work-life balance; experience is dependent on leaders.
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