NetApp·Software Engineer

NetApp Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

United StatesPosted Feb 2022 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

One part of my process already felt off from the start: I didn’t sign the NDA, but they still moved forward.

The last stage ended up being three back-to-back technical interviews, each about an hour.

I was told there would be a whiteboard style format, but when the day came there wasn’t any whiteboard. Instead, I got a series of gotcha questions that didn’t feel connected to my previous experience. That mismatch threw me because I couldn’t anchor my answers in familiar work patterns, and I spent a lot of the time trying to figure out what they wanted rather than building on what I’d done before.

I didn’t receive an offer. It was one of those experiences where the structure was intense and

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