Taro Logo

Senior Software Engineer Interview Experience - Sunnyvale, California

May 1, 2016
Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

The interview process included one phone screen.

The interviewer from the Customer Promise team asked this question: When I provided the entire answer in O(n), the interviewer was not OK with it because they were not able to understand the simple for loop I had written.

I had to iterate through the for loop to explain the result after every iteration, and they still were not able to understand. It was pathetic to see the interviewer struggling to understand the code I wrote.

In my 9 years of experience, I have never encountered such an interviewer. I don't understand why these so-called engineers in such companies ask questions when they cannot even understand them.

Their language was awful. I wish I had not even attended the technical phone screen.

I hope this review helps someone applying for the Customer Promise team at Walmart. I also hope HR from Walmart looks at this review and does something to change the interview process. Perhaps they should have a manager or someone else to support the interviewer.

Interview Questions

Interviewer asked me to write code to find the maximum continuous sum in a set of integers in an input array.

Questions

The interviewer asked me to write code to find the maximum continuous sum in a set of integers in an input array.

i/p: {-2, 5, -1, 4, -3} output: 8 (with 5, -1, 4)

Was this helpful?

Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 18 interview experiences for the Walmart Senior Software Engineer role in Sunnyvale, California.

Success Rate

17%
Pass Rate

Walmart's interview process for their Senior Software Engineer roles in Sunnyvale, California is very selective, failing most engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive22%
Neutral0%
Negative78%

Candidates reported having very negative feelings for Walmart's Senior Software Engineer interview process in Sunnyvale, California.

Walmart Work Experiences