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      Senior Software Engineer Interview

      Apr 6, 2019
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Los Gatos, CA
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Netflix (Los Gatos, CA) in Mar 2019

      Interview

      Got contacted by a recruiter. After couple of phone screens, was invited onsite. I was given the option of going through 4 rounds of technical interview and 3 rounds of leadership interview the same day or 2 different days. I chose to do them on 2 separate days. 4 rounds of technical onsite interviews went well, 2 with managers and 2 with engineers that the candidate is expected to work on a daily basis. 3 of the Interviews were heavily focused on distributed services design, architecture & data modeling and one was on data structure & algorithm. All the interviews were free flowing conversations, the managers and engineers were all nice, respectful & patient during the whole process. Questions were all very practical and things all software engineers end up tackling on a daily basis. After the technical onsite, I was told the feedback was positive and was invited back for interview with leadership team. We discussed the Netflix culture, I expressed that as opposed to Netflix's culture that says "We mix work and personal time", I prefer to keep them separate and not mix them as I explained work/life balance is extremely important to me and that I don't want to keep checking emails and spending time on work during nights and weekends as an expectation. From talking to all of them, I got a sense that "email peeking" culture exists as everyone has it setup on their personal phone. It was said there is nothing like work/life balance but more work/life overlap and also that it is not acceptable if you look at the email and chose not to reply, instead it is expected that you reply that "I will respond on Monday or tomorrow". I felt the expectation to acknowledge emails consistently as unreasonable. And how does one tell if one looked at the email or not? This sounded like a very slippery slope situation to me. Few other statements from the culture memo that I expressed my disagreement with. "We model ourselves on being a team, not a family. A family is about unconditional love, despite, say, your siblings’ bad behavior. A dream team is about pushing yourself to be the best teammate you can be, caring intensely about your teammates, and knowing that you may not be on the team forever. " I am okay with this but this has to go both ways. I can spend weekends and nights helping my sibling but not my employer. "Keeper's test" that manager's use to keep or fire an employee. But there are no safeguards in place so that managers don't abuse it or use it for their own benefit. You are expected to take a leap of faith that the all managers will be fair. For a company that claims "extraordinary candor", including where one can see who said what about you during their "360", salaries and raises are not shared. From what I could gather, unlimited vacation translates to 4-6 weeks of vacation. After the leadership interview rounds I felt there was mutual understanding that we are not compatible on each other's work culture expectations and I was expecting a no offer email which I got after 2 days.
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      Senior Software Engineer Interview

      May 23, 2026
      Anonymous interview candidate
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      Neutral experience
      Easy interview

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      I interviewed at Netflix

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      Seeing the URL shortening service design question caught me off guard at first, but it turned out to be a lucky moment. Just a few days prior, I had practiced a similar architecture problem on PracHub, so I felt somewhat prepared to tackle scalability and data consistency aspects. The process included a recruiter screen, followed by a technical interview focused on system design. Overall, the questions were manageable, but I didn't end up receiving an offer, which was disappointing. The experience taught me a lot, though.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Design a URL shortening service (similar to bit.ly). What components would you include in your architecture, and how would you handle scalability and data consistency?
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      Senior Software Engineer Interview

      May 7, 2026
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Positive experience
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      Application

      I interviewed at Netflix

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      The Netflix interview loop is intense and lives up to its reputation. The recruiters are great, but the technical bar is absolute top tier. After a technical phone screen, the virtual onsite consisted of two deep system design rounds, a practical coding round, and very heavy behavioral rounds focused purely on their Culture Memo. They do not care about how many LeetCode hards you have memorized. They care about how you reason through scale, failure, and ambiguity.

      Senior Software Engineer Interview

      Feb 12, 2026
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Netflix

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      Recruiter screen high level discussion. Tech phone screen live programming exercise. Virtual onsite, 3 tech rounds two culture/behavioral. For mine it was like an out-of-body experience, except when I turned to look it wasn't a body at all; it was a plane. Watched it take off, seemed like maybe the pilot hit the throttle a little hard trying to reach cruising altitude and then.. dunno, maybe he dropped his cigarette under the seat or there was a bee in the cockpit or something because next thing you know he's flailing around while I watch the plane tumbling, helplessly aghast as a wing shears off from the stresses he's inducing. No survivors. But seriously, good interview process. Very helpful recruiter team that will spend time detailing the process and expectations. Exercises are very realistic applied engineering stuff, not brain teasers or obscure algorithms or stuff you haven't done since college. Interview process may be different across the org so YMMV. I interviewed with the Content and Business Products side of the house (i.e., tools for studio, production, not streaming to end users) and the coding, sys design, and data modeling rounds all reflected that. My advice to you: study the OSS software they publish, know your stuff and *stay calm*.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Describe a time when you had conflict with someone outside your group
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