went through the whole Home Depot SWE interview loop earlier this year for a senior backend role on their supply chain platform team. sharing because there isn't much out there that's recent.
the process was 5 rounds total:
recruiter phone screen (30 min): pretty standard background stuff, why Home Depot, what's your experience with large-scale distributed systems. not technical at all.
hiring manager call (45 min): this was more of a two-way conversation. they talked a lot about the team's work on their fulfillment and inventory systems. some behavioral questions woven in. the manager was direct and asked specifically about system scale i'd dealt with before.
technical phone screen (60 min): one medium-level algo problem on a shared editor. nothing wild. they care more about communication and approach than grinding leetcode hard problems. i got a graph traversal variant.
system design (60 min): designing a product availability and inventory tracking service at scale. more retail-focused than typical. they want to see you think about edge cases specific to retail ops like flash sales, regional inventory, store vs warehouse stock.
behavioral panel (60 min, two interviewers): all STAR format. 3-4 questions each. focused on cross-functional collaboration, handling ambiguity, disagreeing with leadership. classic stuff but they take it seriously.
total timeline was about 6 weeks from application to offer. one week per stage roughly.
a few things i noticed. they're big on "ownership" and they do use that word explicitly. they also really probe for whether you've worked in environments with legacy systems, which makes sense given their scale and age as a company. don't go in expecting pure greenfield cloud-native vibes.
level mapping was a bit different from the FAANGs. my role was labeled senior SWE, which felt more like a strong mid-level position based on scope and comp discussion.
happy to answer specifics.