Problem database last updated: June 20, 2025
8 problems · 0 Easy, 7 Medium, 1 Hard · Ranked #169 of 458
0 Easy
0% · avg 23%
7 Medium
88% · avg 59%
1 Hard
13% · avg 18%
Based on 8 reported problems, Nordstrom interviews are in line with industry averages - 13% Hard vs 18% overall. The majority (88%) of questions are Medium difficulty, which is typical for companies that want to see solid fundamentals without excessive trick questions.
Compared to the industry average, Nordstrom puts unusual emphasis on dynamic-programming (37.5% of problems, 1.9x the industry average), hash-table (37.5% of problems, 1.7x the industry average). If you're short on time, these are the categories to double down on.
The most common topics are array (62.5%), dynamic-programming (37.5%), string (37.5%), hash-table (37.5%). Problems below are sorted by frequency, the ones at the top are asked most often.
| Problem | Difficulty | Frequency | Topics | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Spiral Matrix Given an m x n matrix, return all elements of the matrix in spiral order. | Medium | Very Likely | arraymatrixsimulation | Solve |
House Robber You are a professional robber planning to rob houses along a street. Each house has a certain amount of money stashed, the only constraint stopping you from rob... | Medium | Very Likely | arraydynamic-programming | Solve |
Course Schedule There are a total of numCourses courses you have to take, labeled from 0 to numCourses - 1. You are given an array prerequisites where prerequisites[i] = [ai, b... | Medium | Very Likely | depth-first-searchbreadth-first-searchgraph | Solve |
Integer to English Words Convert a non-negative integer num to its English words representation. | Hard | Very Likely | mathstringrecursion | Solve |
House Robber II You are a professional robber planning to rob houses along a street. Each house has a certain amount of money stashed. All houses at this place are arranged in... | Medium | Very Likely | arraydynamic-programming | Solve |
Word Break Given a string s and a dictionary of strings wordDict, return true if s can be segmented into a space-separated sequence of one or more dictionary words. | Medium | Very Likely | arrayhash-tablestring | Solve |
LRU Cache Design a data structure that follows the constraints of a Least Recently Used (LRU) cache. | Medium | Very Likely | hash-tablelinked-listdesign | Solve |
Display Table of Food Orders in a Restaurant Given the array orders, which represents the orders that customers have done in a restaurant. More specifically orders[i]=[customerNamei,tableNumberi,foodItemi]... | Medium | Very Likely | arrayhash-tablestring | Solve |
Spiral Matrix
SolveGiven an m x n matrix, return all elements of the matrix in spiral order.
House Robber
SolveYou are a professional robber planning to rob houses along a street. Each house has a certain amount of money stashed, the only constraint stopping you from rob...
Course Schedule
SolveThere are a total of numCourses courses you have to take, labeled from 0 to numCourses - 1. You are given an array prerequisites where prerequisites[i] = [ai, b...
Integer to English Words
SolveConvert a non-negative integer num to its English words representation.
House Robber II
SolveYou are a professional robber planning to rob houses along a street. Each house has a certain amount of money stashed. All houses at this place are arranged in...
Word Break
SolveGiven a string s and a dictionary of strings wordDict, return true if s can be segmented into a space-separated sequence of one or more dictionary words.
LRU Cache
SolveDesign a data structure that follows the constraints of a Least Recently Used (LRU) cache.
Display Table of Food Orders in a Restaurant
SolveGiven the array orders, which represents the orders that customers have done in a restaurant. More specifically orders[i]=[customerNamei,tableNumberi,foodItemi]...
Frequency scores are based on crowdsourced interview reports. A higher score means the problem has been reported more often in recent Nordstrom interviews.
Very Likely
75-100%
Likely
50-74%
Sometimes
25-49%
Rare
0-24%
Nordstrom interviews focus heavily on array, dynamic-programming, string problems. If you're short on time, these are the categories to prioritize. The problems on this page are sorted by frequency, so start from the top and work your way down.
Beyond solving problems, practice explaining your approach. Nordstrom interviewers care about your thought process - how you break down a problem, consider edge cases, and evaluate tradeoffs between solutions. A clean O(n) solution you can explain clearly beats an O(log n) solution you can't articulate.
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Nordstrom has been reported to ask 8 distinct coding problems. The most common topics are array, dynamic-programming, string. 0 are Easy difficulty, 7 are Medium, and 1 are Hard. Problems are sorted by frequency - the ones at the top are asked most often.
Based on 8 reported problems, Nordstrom interviews are in line with industry averages - 13% Hard vs 18% overall. 88% of questions are Medium difficulty. Focus on the high-frequency Medium problems first, then work through the Hard ones.
Start with the highest-frequency problems listed on this page. Focus on the core topics: array, dynamic-programming, string. Practice solving them under time pressure and explaining your approach out loud. Mock interviews with AI can simulate the real experience.
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