A word of caution before you read the entire interview review. I have interviewed with Google, Amazon, Blackrock, IBM etc., they were all well-organized. But this was THE TERRIBLE experience. There is no bar to even compare this one. Read on to know more.
I applied online. After a week, I did a phone screening about the availability, when will I be able to join, relocation etc., they then sent me the Web-ex link for a video interview. This round included coding. In this mail, they specified four team members names with whom I will be interviewing with. Out of them, only three attended the interview, manager of that team was missing. (** Remember this because we are going to come to this point later). They specially mentioned Java requirement and the questions were around basics oops concepts, design pattern, coding question(you can choose any language but they prefer Java). I waited more than a month. Despite numerous emails asking the update of the application to the person who initially contacted me, there was no response. When I almost forgot about it, then came a call to schedule another interview immediately. I was sent an email with the members in the panel whom I will be interviewing with. This time there is no manager's name. Instead, it was replaced by another team member's name. On the day of the interview, I had to wait for almost 10-15 minutes to be notified that they did not find a meeting room to interview me. (Yes, for real). When I was in the middle of the interview, they suddenly cut the call saying the specific meeting room was reserved by some other team. After 10 minutes, I was switched to video call (initially only our video, screen is shared, we cannot who interviews us) by the manager whom I mentioned was missing in the earlier round of interview. After all the hocus-pocus, I was asked to wait till other members of the team join the panel. Now, there were already few members in a tiny meeting room with few chairs so eventually few of them were standing. When we were waiting, I was asked some random questions like "what's your favorite subject?" to which when I started answering they did not pay attention. They were talking among themselves, cracking jokes. Not even looking at my face. When I finished answering, they did not even respond (they were busy chatting with each other). In the meanwhile, there were few people entering the room and leaving the room (Yes, this was in the middle of the interview). Finally, after every one of them was in the room, the manager introduced himself. He asked two behavioral questions. One of them is "Walmart has a strict policy with not taking any gift from vendors. So, when a vendor is paying for food and drink and you were invited, what would you do?" for which I asked, is the food considered a gift as well? He answered I don't know what do you think. "Food is shareable I guess if Walmart is strict and considers that as a gift as well, I would be dealing with the vendor diplomatically by saying, I have an important family gathering to attend or my mother and I are going to dinner etc. because I cannot be rude to anyone. " Then there were some other technical questions.
I received a call from a person who is not anywhere related to this interview mentioning that they moved on with other candidates. I am thankful that I was not selected for this position and not becoming the part of this kind of work culture. To me, I prefer were innovation, collaboration, growth rather being sloppy and strict for unnecessary things. Sorry Not sorry.
