Nintendo of America Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Positive

Redmond, WAPosted Oct 2024 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My first step was a coding assessment where I worked in the language they wanted for the position, and it was tied to whether I passed into the next round.

Once I cleared that, I had a recruiter interview that felt almost unusually easy—more like a friendly conversation than a high-stakes screen. After that, I moved into the hiring manager stage, where the focus shifted toward getting deep specifics out of me about my projects.

They wanted detail around what I did and the kinds of data structures I used, and it became clear they weren’t satisfied with high-level explanations. I reached a further coding interview panel partway through, but I didn’t make it past that point.

That overall arc felt a lot like a process where technical story-telling

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