Nordstrom Software Engineer interview experience

After that, I went into a loop that was split across several interviewers with different focuses—an architecture/system design panel, then behavioral rounds, and finally two leetcode-style coding questions.

In that coding portion, one question leaned on sorting concepts. The process itself felt like it had good pacing, but it was clearly expecting me to move across topics quickly: talk through how I’d design something, then switch gears into problem solving. System design was the part I wasn’t fully prepared for in the way I needed, and it showed during the discussion—still, the overall