Had a panel interview that went really well as I have all the experience and more. The energy from the team was also positive and the call ended with smiles and one person saying “we really enjoyed the conversation with you”. I get a call an hour later from HR and I was expecting great feedback and details on the next round. HR said the team didn’t want to go ahead since I didn’t have revenue generating experience when I spoke about that part so much with examples. Told HR the same, he said the team is uber-particular with hiring. Anyone else with similar experience at Walmart recently or any other place? #walmart #hiring
I interviewed with them recently where the engineer spoke about design requirement for about 40 mins and left me with 20 mins to actually design the system. Got a reject after 2 days saying one of the design wasn’t good. I feel luck plays a major factor in interviews
I'm sorry to hear about your experience. Most corporate interviews are like this. You'll never know what went wrong. If they give you a reason why they passed, that was already evident in your resume, so again, their reasons, if they even provide one that is, are irrelevant.
That’s right. The weird thing here is that I gave examples of solid revenue generating work I did in ad sales yet the recruiter said the panel (or maybe one person from the panel) told him I’m not suited for a revenue generating role.
It might be a perm advertisement!
Dodged a bullet.
Thanks for your comment. Why do you say so? Some context will help. With good growth on their Walmart Connect ad business and the overall growth of what is referred to as Retail Media, Walmart has great opportunity ahead of them.
I work on the tech side of things and the work life balance is just horrible. When I say horrible, it is to the extent that it may drive you crazy. But then again, it is team dependent and your team might have been good.
So interesting. I think I finished up my interviews this week but keep thinking they will ask me to talk to someone else. Already met with 7 including HR. Would like to just get either a yay or nay this week so I’m a little jealous you got a call so quickly.
That’s nice! Hope you get through if you really want this one. I’ve understood with interviews that the people interviewing and giving feedback to each other internally are not incentivized in any way, so they take their own time. HR has a hard time chasing up to close the process and get done too, so it does take a while to close off.
Its a weired company, mostly they would have hired some1 internal. Or the manager may know some1, happens a lot at WMT. Plus situation rt now is very competitive, unless you have FAANG credentials its even hard to get an interview let alone an offer.
Yep, I think a similar story across the industry. Do you know the caliber of people at Walmart? Are they on FAANG level?
They mostly have ppl from AMZN and few sprinkling of FB and GooG. Mostly not a good company as they have very disfunctional org. Salary is also on the lower end and classic old process and distopian company. They also layoff people wo announcing any layoffs, but severance is ok, 3 mts notice + few weeks based on length of employment. Riddled with politics, very similar to other large companies. But incompetance at WMT is at a different level.
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That is a trash company. I had a guy fall asleep in my panel and another data manager who kept giving me incorrect guidance for a problem until another data manager stopped him. You lucked out
Crazy that someone was falling asleep in your interview! I think I can add so much value to their Ad Sales team but having second thoughts the more I think about it.
It was so wild. Don't want to give away too many specifics but we spent 10 minutes with one random dude asking me what I'd do if my manager dumped a ton of work for me at 6pm due the next morning and left ....