Walmart Labs | IN4 | Jan | Bad Experience

I have been preparing for interviews for the past three months and applied to several companies. I have approximately eight years of experience in web development. I expected Walmart Labs to have a high standard in terms of the questions asked and professionalism displayed. Unfortunately, my experience did not meet those expectations.

The first round focused on data structures and problem-solving. It felt like a virtual walk-in interview as I had to wait for thirty minutes before being admitted. There were six people in the Zoom meeting, and I was placed in a breakout room with one of them. The questions asked were:

1. Parenthesis Stack Question (Easy)
2. Create a Stack Data Structure from arrays (Super-easy)
3. Merge Sort explanation and code (More theoretical, but okay)
4. Function to know if a number is prime (Basic)
5. What is memoization?
6. Definition of "tries"
7. How to cut a cake to divide into eight equal parts
8. If an ant is in one corner of the room, what would be the most efficient path to take to reach the opposite 3D corner?

Overall, I found the round to be very easy and focused on problems suitable for freshers. Given my experience, I expected more challenging questions. However, I assumed this was just the first round of many.

The next round was scheduled two hours later, but I was initially told there would only be one round that day. I had to wait another thirty minutes before the interview began. This round focused on Node.js-specific questions. While I understand the importance of Node.js, I was heavily prepared for data structures and algorithms. I was surprised by the language-specific questions, such as:

1. Buffer data type in Node.js
2. Event system in Node.js

After a few minutes, I informed the interviewer that I was not prepared for Node.js-specific questions and asked if they would be willing to reschedule the interview or call it a day. To my surprise, they agreed. However, there was no follow-up for the next week. I even emailed to confirm the date. I assumed they had moved on to other candidates. Then, the recruiter emailed out of the blue with a new interview date two days later. I wanted more time to prepare, but I went ahead with it.

On the day of the interview, I was told that I was the only candidate scheduled, so there would be no waiting. However, no one showed up for the interview. I was extremely disappointed. Not only was it a waste of my time, but it was also unprofessional. The least they could have done was inform me.

I emailed them about the situation and how unprofessional it was, but I received no response even after a week. I wanted to share this experience.