NetApp·Software Engineer

NetApp Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

Boulder, COPosted Feb 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process for an SDE-1 position at NetApp had been going smoothly at first.

I’d done a recruiter screening and then a first interview, and I was just waiting for them to schedule the next step.

When I got ghosted, it was hard not to read into it. Eventually I reached back out to the recruiter directly and learned that the role lost funding. What bothered me was that the communication didn’t seem to reach candidates who were already in the middle of interviewing—there was no proactive update, just silence after the first round.

That was the main way the experience felt “very difficult,” even though I’d been making progress on my end. I got the answer only because I

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