Walmart Labs Weird Interview Experience
Recently, I interviewed with Walmart Labs for a Staff Data Scientist role. I had 3 30 mins 1:1 interview and one lunch interview at the Sunnyvale campus. They extended an offer - TC 240k the next week. I am very skeptical about accepting the offer. I felt really weird during the interviews since none of the interviewers posed any sensible questions. Each one of them kept bantering about their past experience and spoke things off the topic for a technical interview. Even the technical questions they asked were naive and didn’t make sense most of the time. Everything seemed sketchy from the start and very unprofessional. Any comments. Back in 2013 when I was in college, Walmart Labs was a big name in tech. what’s the current status. I personally felt any one who could talk english could have cleared the interview and this is for a Staff level role!!
Each interview was only 30 mins?
Yes 30 mins
@OP do you remember the type of questions they asked in those 30-minute rounds? was it mostly sys design?
Hiring bar has gone down in past 5 years. I have worked in Walmartlabs during their heydays and certainly things have gone down.
Story doesn’t add up. Walmart Labs has never been a big name in tech.
Atleast that’s what I used to hear from a few friends who got into big tech back then ...
Walmart is a stepping stone. Everyone there is for easy tc or passing through. If the money is an upgrade and it’s your only offer, take it
Not sure why you're surprised. Have you ever been inside a Walmart? The store is typically run by crackheads.
IBM speaking
Says a crackhead with no company name listed.
First of all, 240K for Staff DS, is less. But I know Walmart makes these kinds of offers. Google Staff DS, or similar position can bring in $500K. And yes, Walmart is not a tech company, dont expect it to be of standards of FAANG
I did the on-site interview @ Hoboken few months ago. One of the “technical” interviewer asked about my visa status. She was already acting like an ass. With this question, all my interest to work in that place went out the door from that point on.
I have worked in WalmartLabs when it was formed ( just after Kosmix acquisition) and at that time (2012-2013), it was focused on tech. However hiring quality has gone down (which was evident from 2016/2017). Only couple of people I worked with are there ..Rest everyone moved to G/FB/LinkedIn.
Don't come to Walmart. It sucks. Internal politics has reached it's pinnacle.
Did you get interviewrd by that lady who is the staff
O yeah! She did!!
The main problem is democratizing machine learning. People who have done mooc machine learning courses are leading the team nowadays. What else can you expect of such teams
was he indian?