Anyone from data science groups at walmart labs? I have few questions about interview process. Thanks.
If you are experienced don't come, you will be frustrated as people will tell you how to be a data scientist when they themselves no nothing, if you are new grad then come and learn for a couple of years, just make sure you keep feeding false egos of everybody, if you are mid level experience I suggest stay away too much politics and low diversity
Wow, that sounds rough. Thanks for the feedback.
Spot in! However I would still argue it is very much dependent on team. There are still very smart folks in the labs , but I must admit they are rare and I am not sure how long they will be around . In last 6 /7 months we lost some real good folks.
I agree totally with above comment. I interviewed with them. Really mediocre folks with inflated ego. Take it as ur last option if u don't find anything else.
I am sorry for your experience. However, one bad experience is not reflective of the quality of entire company. I do agree there is a huge variance in quality of folks across teams. If you end up interviewing for one of the teams on left of the bell curve, I would not be surprised. Do you mind sharing which team you interviewed for ?
I interviewed with one of the team in search org. Not want to go in specifics. I agree to your point but having consistent experience with 4-5 interviewees who claim to be data scientists but know just how to run tools. What kind of folks do you recruit for such an important component of website? It shows overall quality. I might be wrong in my comments but it left bad taste for me and it makes me think overall perception about labs is correct.
They pay well though. A new grad (masters) recently got an offer of $150 base, 30k on target bonus and 80k RSU over four years. Without negotiation.
If pay is the only reason you come to work for labs then some thing is really broken.
^ good point. However there are people with different life circumstances, and I wanted to put this data point out there.
I recommend data science if it is part of the growth org - especially personalization. These engineers are highly revered and paid well !!
Could you please share your interview experience? Thanks.
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Walmart for data science? Seriously?
One of the world’s largest retailers... they need it more than most crappy startups do.
Yes my friend , @labs has access to a treasure of data. It is a r&d arm of a fortune 1 company. That said there are definitely some challenges which need to be addressed . Mostly around huge variance in quality of talent, red tape, infrastructure disparity etc.