I applied through college or university. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Nordstrom (Seattle, WA) in Dec 2015
Interview
Met the recruiter at an on-campus school job fair. Got to talk with the hiring manager 30 minutes after submitting my resume. Had a quick phone call about what Nordstrom was doing and if I was interested in their work.
Went through a first round online interview with a group of engineers. After that, I got flown to Seattle where they were hiring for a final interview. Got to saw their office (really cool) and went through 1 round of HR interview and 1 round of coding (C#, no white boarding for me but programming on Visual Studio. A friend had to do white boarding though).
Questions during first interview:
simple if-else statement, print [some word] given input is 5 letters, print [another word] given input is 4 letters and print [some word] if neither (I can't recall but it's something simple like that)
Final interview:
My friend got asked standard interview questions e.g. reverse linked list in C#. I had a "TinyRegister." Given these failing test cases, make them pass by changing the code. Used Visual Studio to work through.
HR questions: standard HR stuff. Got asked about their "NordDNA" or company culture.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
What was one time you proposed a change and it got implemented?
Phone screen followed by a four-interview loop. Phone screen was as you'd expect. Loop consisted of an architecture panel, behavioral, behavioral, then two leetcode-style questions. One of them was based on a sorting algorithm.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Asked questions based on implementing sorting algorithms
Interview round included 4x45 min loop interview: behavioral, trendsetter, coding, and system design. For the behavioral and trendsetter, I was asked mostly about experiences. My trendsetter got really technical, as I was asked system design questions...
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about a product you deployed. For the coding round, I received a LC medium.
4 loop interviews: 1st round system design, 2nd round behavioral round, 3rd round Bar raiser, 4th round coding round. Overall, the process was good. I wasn't very well prepared for system design round