Walmart Interview Experience for SDE-2 2021

Interview Process

The whole interview process was done virtually. It consists of 5 rounds.

Round 1: Online assessment

Time: 1 hour

This round was conducted on the HackerEarth platform
Firstly, It consists of 10 MCQ questions based on OS, DBMS, OOP, and one general aptitude question
Then it had 2 coding question
The first one was the easy-medium problem about check two strings equal or not by swapping letters among them.
The second one was a medium-hard problem based on the graph data structure (Cities and Roads)
I was able to solve the first one completely and the second one partially
About 16 students were shortlisted for further rounds

Round 2: Technical round 1

Time: 50 min

All further face-to-face interview rounds were conducted on zoom
In this round interviewer introduced himself. His role is SDE-3
The interview started with my intro.
Questions on OOPs and followed by designing of real words examples, expected to write classes structure
Questions on DBMS, OS and to write one simple SQL query
After this, he asked me to explain the first coding question which I solved completely in online assessment
Then a graph question similar to the number of Islands problem
An array question to find the maximum area of the rectangle where one side is maximum of (a[ i ], a[ j ]) and another side is a difference of (i, j) where I,j are indices
About 10 students were shortlisted for further rounds

Round 3: Technical round 2

Time:1 hour

Started with my intro
Asked about projects and technologies I worked on
This round was fully a peer to peer coding round
The first question – Find the equality of two strings by swapping letters of one string
The second question( Puzzle ) – array consists of (n -1) elements instead of n elements ranging from 1 to n such that we have to find missing elements in the array
Third question – Graph-based question to find a particular element in the matrix which is sorted from left to right and also from top to bottom
Fourth question – Given a String we have to find all the permutations of that string. He wanted a fully optimized code, I was able to achieve that
I am not clear with the number but as I know 5 people were selected for the HR round.

Round 4: HR round

Time:30 min

He asked me some basic technical questions. First I thought it to be a managerial round but it turned out to be an HR round
Then he asked me some basic HR questions such as strengths and weaknesses
Where do you see yourself in 5 years
Why Walmart etc
He was very cool and it went as a discussion
Initially, they told me that it was the last round but within 5 min I got called to join again

Round 5: HR round / Managerial round

Time: 20 min

It’s completely based on projects and technologies I worked on
I had to explain all the technologies mentioned in my resume, like what is the purpose of using it, advantages, disadvantages, etc.

Finally, Selected.

Tips

Must be aware and prepare for each and every word in your resume
Should have high knowledge of OOPS, DBMS, and OS
Should have at least solved more number medium questions in Competitive coding. (Standard questions are compulsory)
Know about the company before applying

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