Walmart SSE 6 YOE Reject Q3 2025

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Senior Software Engineer6 years
January 12, 20261 reads

Summary

I had an interview for a Senior Software Engineer role at Walmart in Q3 2025, where I was presented with two distinct technical questions related to data manipulation and system design challenges, and unfortunately, I was rejected.

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###R1 Q1: Given a list of strings containing real number (positive, negative, decimal), sort it, without converting it to arithmetic data type.

Q2: Consider a stream of location co-ordinates (lat, long), which can enable users for below operations:

  1. Give nearest 10 locations for given co-ordinates.
  2. Give top 5 hotspots.

Interview Questions (2)

Q1
Sort Real Numbers as Strings
Data Structures & Algorithms

Given a list of strings containing real number (positive, negative, decimal), sort it, without converting it to arithmetic data type.

Q2
Location Stream Processing for Nearest and Hotspots
System Design

Consider a stream of location co-ordinates (lat, long), which can enable users for below operations:

  1. Give nearest 10 locations for given co-ordinates.
  2. Give top 5 hotspots.
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