Netflix·Data Scientist

Netflix Data Scientist interview experience

No offer

Medium

Positive

RemotePosted Jan 2021 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My loop included an online coding assessment, and once I cleared that I moved to a phone interview with a senior data scientist.

The format was structured and fairly time-boxed: it lasted about an hour. I had around twenty minutes to describe one of my past projects, and then roughly forty minutes to answer the questions the interviewer had.

What stood out was how practical the questioning felt. Instead of abstract math-only prompts, the interviewer leaned into questions that sounded like they were tied to what the company actually dealt with in practice. The process felt like they were checking whether I could translate experience into decisions.

I didn’t get an offer. The reflection I took from that experience was

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