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Walmart Global Tech software engineer interview
The rounds at each level, what interviewers score, the Company values, and the questions candidates report, linked to problems you can solve here with the editor, walkthrough video and solutions in four languages.
Levels
| AlgoRung level | Walmart Global Tech title | Experience | Interviews after screening | Design rounds |
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| SDE 1 | Software Engineer II (entry) | New grad to about 2 years | about 3 | Usually not |
| SDE 2 | Software Engineer III | About 2 to 5 years | about 5 | Yes |
| SDE 3 | Senior Software Engineer | Senior, about 5 to 10 years | about 4 | Yes |
| SDE 4 | Staff Software Engineer and above | Staff, principal and above | about 0 | Usually not |
The rounds, in order
Pick your level above to see only your rounds. Each step links to a guide on how that round is scored.
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Online assessment · 90 min
Campus and drive candidates take a test with about two medium problems, sometimes with MCQs.
SDE 1
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Coding (DSA) · 60 min
Two easy-to-medium problems, sometimes wrapped in a REST endpoint with validation and error handling.
SDE 1, SDE 2, SDE 3
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Team-specific round · 60 min
A Java and tech deep dive: streams, multithreading, HashMap internals, SOLID, Spring Boot, Kafka, Redis and SQL.
SDE 1, SDE 2, SDE 3
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Low-level design / machine coding · 60 min
Some SE III loops include a medium LLD problem with Java concurrency follow-ups.
SDE 2
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System design (HLD) · 60 min
System design for SE III and above, e.g. inventory management or a read-heavy multi-region feed.
SDE 2, SDE 3
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Hiring manager · 60 min
A project deep dive plus behavioral questions, sometimes with a design or coding question.
SDE 1, SDE 2, SDE 3
ScreeningCodingDesignBehavioralDecision
What interviewers look for
- Clean, correct solutions with complexity analysis
- Strong Java and Spring fundamentals
- Microservices, messaging and caching tied to your own projects
- Design trade-offs at scale for SE III and above
Topics to focus on
Weighted by what candidates say comes up and by the reported questions below.
Behavioral: Company values
The values are public, but no source says interviews are scored against them. The behavioral part of the manager round covers conflict, the hardest problem you solved, and self-improvement.
Respect the IndividualIntegrity and trust
Show you were honest when it was uncomfortable, and how you earned trust back.
- Describe a mistake you made that reached production. How did you handle it?
- Tell me about a time you had to tell someone something they did not want to hear.
- Describe how you built trust with a new team or stakeholder.
Act with IntegrityIntegrity and trust
Show you were honest when it was uncomfortable, and how you earned trust back.
- Describe a mistake you made that reached production. How did you handle it?
- Tell me about a time you had to tell someone something they did not want to hear.
- Describe how you built trust with a new team or stakeholder.
Serve Our Customers and MembersCustomer focus
Start from a real user problem and show how your decision changed something for them.
- Describe a time you changed a plan because of what you learned about the user.
- Tell me about a time you had to balance a customer need against a technical constraint.
Strive for ExcellenceHigh standards
Show you raised the bar on quality even when nobody asked, and why it mattered.
- Tell me about a time you were not satisfied with "good enough".
- Describe a time you had to choose between quality and speed.
- Describe how you assess or help hire a new team member.
All behavioral questions · Write your STAR stories in the story bank
Coding questions candidates report
Each links to the AlgoRung problem: write-up, animated walkthrough, solutions in Java, Python, C++ and JavaScript, and an editor with hidden tests. Shared questions show the other companies that ask them.
- First Missing Positive Hard Arrays & Hashing also Microsoft, Flipkart
- Next Greater Element I Easy Monotonic Stack also Oracle, Adobe
- LRU Cache Medium Design Data Structures also Amazon, Microsoft, Apple +4
- Implement Queue using Stacks Easy Stack also Goldman Sachs
- Lowest Common Ancestor of a Binary Tree Medium Trees & BST also Google, Meta, Netflix +1
- N-Queens Hard Recursion & Backtracking
- Binary Tree Zigzag Level Order Traversal Medium Trees & BST also Amazon
- Best Time to Buy and Sell Stock Easy Dynamic Programming also Amazon, Apple, Netflix
No questions match.
Walmart Global Tech coding questions by topic · Walmart Global Tech SDE 1 interview · Walmart Global Tech SDE 2 interview · Walmart Global Tech senior interview · Walmart Global Tech staff interview
Also reported, not on AlgoRung yet (2)
Find Median from Data Stream · Partition Equal Subset Sum
Design questions
Entry loops lean on DSA and Java depth with light design. SE III adds LLD or HLD, and Senior and above get a dedicated HLD round probing microservices, Kafka ordering, caching and active-active setups.
- Reported: Read-heavy, multi-region feed News Feed · walkthrough Practise on the board
- Reported: Music streaming app Spotify · walkthrough
Also reported: Inventory management system · Order schema design · A/B testing infrastructure
Walmart Global Tech system design questions in detail · How to answer any design question: the LADDER method
Worth knowing
- India SE III loops typically run three to five rounds: DSA, a Java deep dive or LLD, design, and a manager round.
- A coding problem may be framed as an endpoint with input validation.
- An August 2025 SE III offer took about 35 days from first round to offer.
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Sources
Written in our own words from these public pages and candidate reports, checked November 2026. Company names are trademarks of their owners.