NetApp Software Engineer interview experience

In the first round, I was asked questions tied to core project work, including threads-related thinking. They gave me a string encoding problem where repeated letters get compressed into a character and count, and then a Unix-style path canonicalization task where you simplify things like “.”, “..”, and redundant slashes.

The second round was more about multithreading in C++. I had to write a basic program to print odd and even numbers sequentially using two threads, and then adjust it so the index counter was shared globally across both functions. They also asked binary search to find a