I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at NIKE (Beaverton, OR) in Oct 2017
Interview
Two interviews
First phone and second in-person.
The first interview was more technical and the second interview was a panel with 3 managers.
Questions were more around who I am and what I know about the company and its technology
According to HR supposed to be three rounds:
1. Data Structure and Algo, & hiring manager
2. Systems Design (High level)
3. Culture and fitment (I believe, I don't recollect very well)
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The first round was a very pleasant experience with the hiring manager. asked a simple question based on array.
Second round was postponed several times as the Principal wasn't available. Not sure why they schedule when the principal is uncertain.
On the day of the interview the principal joins in 15 minutes late, only after calling HR after 10 minutes (even HR won't pick phone)
Finally on to the question, it was a simple app but the constraint given was it should be cost effective. Expecting 1M requests per day.
I was able to provide 2 solutions - aggressively cost effective, and moderately cost effective with better availability. During the process I clearly mentioned I'm ruling out using Lamda as its got 1M as free tier which we would exhaust in a day as you are expecting 1M per day traffic.
At the end of the interview the Principal insists I should have used Lambda and goes on to praise lambda usage. This was my feeling after the interview:
1. There are maybe few incompetent people who don't even understand English and struggle to communicate. I wonder how they get in, in the first place.
2. They just bluff any random (1M) number when you try and clarify for traffic requirements, but don't remember it later on
Long and over burdened. Conducted by people who have no idea what they are doing. Overall easy but make sure they like you, it seems like it's more of a first date then a real way to understand qualification.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at NIKE
Interview
Phone screening call with the recruiter, then a session with the hiring manager. Afterwards I met with 3 individual people throughout the week, sharing my background and experiences and learning more about the role and applications.