What to do about Team Misalignment in Internship
Interview Experience
Hey everyone, just looking for some advice. I'm going to be interning at Walmart in Sunnyvale this summer, and after filling out the skills questionnaire, I finally got my manager. The issue is that t
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Hey everyone, just looking for some advice. I'm going to be interning at Walmart in Sunnyvale this summer, and after filling out the skills questionnaire, I finally got my manager. The issue is that the work that I will be doing this summer will be mostly in a domain I have not touched (Python, Java, Spark, and Machine Learning). I have a lot of skills that are much more systems/infra focused like Go, Rust, C, Operating Systems, (one of the biggest talking points in my interview was being the head TA for my school's OS class) and if I had a choice in the matter I would like to be working in cloud environments, or at least distributed systems if I can, I am not super interested in ML. I can't change my manager as far as I know, and I don't really have another offer to renege for anymore. Has anyone been in a situation similar to this one? I don't want to come across as spoiled or anything, but I worked really hard to get this internship and I would hate for it to send signals to future companies that I am interested in something that I am truly not. Any advice is welcomed.
About This Question
This is a candidate experience report from a walmart interview for a mle role (intern level) during the manager round reported in 2026.
It covers the following topics: System Design, Ml, Os .
Difficulty rating: Hard