NetApp·Software Engineer

NetApp Software Engineer interview experience

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BengaluruPosted Jun 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process started with an online coding round and then moved into multiple technical interviews that covered a wide spread of storage and systems topics.

The coding part felt challenging, and across the next interviews I was pulled into deep fundamentals like data structures and storage concepts, and then even into OS internals, networking, and DBMS fundamentals. The difficulty level matched the breadth—there wasn’t much room to stay surface-level.

The interviewers also leaned heavily on what felt like real systems vocabulary: storage, OS, networking, and how software engineering choices connect those layers. Languages and tooling came up too, with C/C++/Python-style coding expectations mentioned as part of what they were looking at, along

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