NIKE·Software Engineer

NIKE Software Engineer interview experience

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Negative

Shanghai, ShanghaiPosted Feb 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After I passed the online assessment, I did a remote interview for the software engineer role in Shanghai, conducted in Chinese.

The experience was rough in a way that really stuck with me. The interview questions and the style of questioning felt rigid and dogmatic, and it didn’t come across as problem-solving focused.

With three interviewers, the questioning leaned heavily on memorizing computer theory. It felt less like they were looking for an engineer who could reason through problems and more like they were rewarding the kind of knowledge you’d build through an exam system. I left feeling dissatisfied with the mismatch between what I associate with engineering interviews and what I actually went through, and

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