NetApp Software Engineer interview experience

They were aiming for an L5 level, but I didn’t have the exact experience they wanted at that level. Their plan was to move forward anyway by offering me an L3 role.

That made the process feel promising—like the gap was understandable rather than a dealbreaker. But after that decision, they never came back to finalize anything. I was left waiting without a clear closing.

No offer came through, and the biggest frustration was how smooth the rounds felt compared to how the process just stalled afterward. It left me questioning what happened between the “we’d offer” signal and the final silence.