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Nike coding interview / online assessment, format and difficulty: just did it in 2026

mobile_mara · 4 replies

did the Nike OA last month so this is fresh. sharing the format details because the stuff i found online was from 2022-2023 and things have changed a bit.

Platform: HackerRank. they give you a link and a deadline (mine was 5 days to complete it, untimed by me but tracked by the system).

Format: 90 minutes, 2 coding problems. no SQL, no output-only problems, no multiple choice. just 2 algorithmic problems.

Difficulty: i'd call it LeetCode medium. one was arrays (sliding window approach worked fine), one was a graph problem. neither had tricky edge cases that felt gotcha-ish. if you can consistently solve mediums in under 20 minutes you'll be comfortable.

Languages available: Java, Python, C++, JavaScript, others. i used Python.

One thing that surprised me: there were 5-10 "style" questions at the end. not coding, just multiple choice about software best practices (like "which approach better handles X"). they took maybe 10 minutes. i have no idea how heavily weighted these are but they existed.

What to prep: classic sliding window, BFS/DFS on graphs, basic tree traversals. you don't need hard LeetCode prep for the OA. the phone screen and loop rounds are harder than the OA.

honestly the OA was easier than i expected for a company like Nike. the filtering probably happens more at the loop stage.

4 replies

marketer_mei

how long after submitting the OA did you hear back about next steps? i'm sitting in purgatory right now

market_realist

took about 8 days for me. i emailed the recruiter at day 7 and heard back the next morning. don't be shy about following up after a week.

backend_bekah

the style questions are real and they do seem to factor in. my recruiter mentioned they look at the "complete submission" not just the code scores. i scored 100% on code but got 2 style questions wrong and still passed, so it's not a hard cutoff.

jp_newgrad

good to know it's medium difficulty and not hard. i've been grinding hards trying to prep for every OA but maybe i'm over-indexing