Nordstrom Software Engineer interview experience

I was given a very hard LeetCode-style task based on a JSON file that contained multiple brands, each with nested items, sizes, and colors. The goal was to extract the right items under a specific brand and then further filter by criteria like size or color.

I remember how quickly the complexity piled up—structuring the parsing and handling the filtering efficiently was the real challenge. It felt like the technical bar was genuinely high compared to the rest of what I’d expected, and that coding round dominated the experience even though other parts of the process weren’t described as the