Walmart
Senior Software Engineer
Microservices vs Monolithic architecture choice
Medium
Round 3 (Microservices & DevOps)system_designCandidate Selected
Why did you choose a microservices architecture instead of a monolithic architecture?
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Walmart Senior Software Engineer Interview Experience
The interview process at Walmart consisted of five comprehensive technical rounds covering a broad range of topics. Across the rounds, the candidate was evaluated on Core Java & Concurrency, Spring Boot internal mechanics, Microservices architecture and DevOps practices, SQL queries and indexing, and Low-Level System Design (LLD). Overall, the process was thorough with a medium-to-hard difficulty level, heavily focusing on deep technical understanding, concurrency, and SOLID principles.