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Nielsen Interview Experiences
3935 interview stories from candidates at 857 companies: how each round went, what was asked and how it ended. Every company page links to practice questions in the same style.
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- Spring Boot Machine Coding Round and Lessons From 13 Interviews and 5 OffersNielsen · Software Engineer · Other · May 2026Offer
I spent about 3-4 months preparing, and I kept prep and applying separate instead of doing both at once. In the end I interviewed with 13 companies and got offers from 5 of them. Most were startups, with a few big multinationals in the mix. What worked best for me was starting with the problems that come up most often, for both DSA and design. For DSA I went through a popular 150-problem list, an…
