Process
Round 1: Screening with Karat (3rd party) Duration: 1 hr
Section 1: (10 to 15 mins) Presented with 5 topics (Design patterns, Testing, Front-end development, Networking, and more). Needed to choose 2 topics. Around 7 or 8 questions were asked. Answered all except one.
Section 2: Coding (45 mins) (Not the exact question, but similar)
Q1. Given a list of IDs and an item, find all pairs of IDs that share the common item.
Used a hashmap of sets to solve the problem, provided time and space complexities, and explained. Executed the code well in under 30 minutes.
Q2. Given a list of nodes and their previous nodes, list the nodes in order.
Used a hashmap to order the courses. Explained time and space complexities and gave a dry run of the code. Finished 95% of the code when time was up.
The interviewer provided feedback, stating they were impressed by the explanation and approach taken, and were very pleased with the performance.
Questions
Given a list of IDs and an item, find all the pairs of IDs and the common items between them.
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Walmart Work Experiences
- 5.0Awesome place to workSoftware Engineer • Current EmployeeBengaluru, Karnataka, IndiaJanuary 30, 2015Pros: Great place to work for. The management is composed of what has to be done. We're having complete end-to-end ownership of whatever we are doing. Work-life balance is just fine. Get enough time to pursue personal interests. Compensation is good too (at par with all other big names).Cons: Couldn't find any as of now.
- 3.0Good work-life balanceSoftware Engineer • Current EmployeeJanuary 21, 2021Pros: Good work-life balance and a lot of opportunities to publish.Cons: Cons of any big organization: things move a bit slowly.
- 5.0Good Company with Nice FacilitySoftware Engineer • Current EmployeeBengaluru, Karnataka, IndiaOctober 3, 2017Pros: Good technology stack to work with. Nice management.Cons: Nothing as such. All good.
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