Walmart Global Tech, responsible for driving digital solutions behind their ambitious e-commerce project, Project Glass, needed to expand its in-house engineering team by hiring dozens of senior Java Engineers. To ensure these engineers could hit the ground running from day one, a tailored approach was taken during selection, hiring, and onboarding.
This included:
- Customised interview techniques: Designed to identify top talent with relevant experience and problem-solving skills.
- Technical testing: Rigorous assessments that evaluated candidates' technical abilities and cultural fit.
- A roster of senior interviewers: Ensuring a diverse panel assessed each candidate's potential for success in the team.
The chosen engineers were distributed evenly across five layers within Walmart:
- Orchestration Layer
- Shopping Items (discounts and variable products)
- Cart
- Checkout
- Payments
- New product and services development spanned all layers
Fostering a highly collaborative work environment. Team members worked closely together to solve issues, bugs, dependencies, and leverage domain knowledge from the entire team. Despite the complexity, scale, and diverse technologies involved, a team of up to 20 backend engineers demonstrated high velocity in implementing new features.
Our internal spaces, ad-hoc meetings, and showcases allowed the team to understand their contributions to the larger project where Engineers across the globe were constantly committing changes to the code repositories around clock. These touch-points enabled a cohesive understanding of their collective impact.
Attributes
- Domain: Retail, e-commerce / S&P100
- Large Scale Enterprise
- Java, SpringBoot, Kafka, Microservices & Azure Cloud