Hi, I have a Senior SWE full day loop at Nordstrom coming up. A couple of rounds will be focusing on the below areas: 1. Quality and instrumentation 2. Engineering best practices Does anyone has insights on how to prepare for these rounds?
I don’t know if this is still true, but I remember these sections being very team-dependent (there’s no standard question bank we ask from), so it’s hard to prep for. I know some folks who asked pair programming questions (not Leetcode) in these rounds, others asked questions that more resembled a case study. As long as you have experience working on production systems, you should be fine. That said, i also agree with other comment - company outlook is not so great.
Pair programming- more like debugging or coming up with small feature together? Thanks for the overall insight.
More like coming up with a small feature. Someone might ask a more Leetcode-type question, but it’s pretty rarer (but again, very team dependent)
I agree with above comments. If you have other options then don’t come to Nordstrom right now. And like above comment there is no standard interview question bank.
Yes there is a standard question bank, I know because I use it.
Hulu > Nordstrom Are you interviewing for sr2 or sr1, what’s your current title? I would interview for shits but don’t accept an offer
The posting is for SR1.. current title is senior software engineer.
What is your YOE and expectations for TC?
I’ve never seen someone be rejected based on the outcome of those sections. What you’ll be asked is dependent on the team and their needs.
Are there no coding specific rounds in the full loop? The structure I have been provided doesn’t include any dedicated coding round. Plus the recruiter also said it’s as per teams discretion whether they want to conduct a coder pad interview or not in these two rounds.
@nudY28 there will most likely be at least one coding in your loop, but it’s not limited to a specific round
There are no real standards for interviewing here and it’s entirely team to team. I’d expect for these two topics it’d be a series of “tell me a time when you..” statements with follow up questions about a service incident or outage, how you responded, lessons learned, etc.
It’s a trash show over here. I wouldn’t join if I were you
You will have at least one tech interview so study leet code to cover that. I would expect behavior-type of questions to understand your alignment with the core values, so have your stories ready to plug into the situation for the question. Nordstrom is a retail company first, works within the business needs and financial benefit, we need engineers who are able to work with you think that constraint and keep a healthy balance with delivering on a timelines and aligned to standard and process. It is still a great company for work for, if not I would have left and tried my fit somewhere else. Honestly, I was not aware of any open positions, consider yourself lucky to get an interview and use the time to learn more about the tension to see if this is a good fit for you.
Thank you!
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Skip the interview. It’s a dumpster fire over here and we haven’t met bonus targets in a year
The blind community has a particularly negative view of the company at the moment. We cancelled bonuses last year but are on track for the bonus this fall. We have a new CTO who is making some changes and this has caused anxiety amongst the engineers. Without knowing much about OP it’s not fair to turn them against Nordstrom. We’ve got it pretty good in my opinion.
Even with a new CTO the previous and current managers have been the worst I’ve seen creating a toxic culture