Netflix Software Engineer interview experience

The hiring manager gave me a take-home project using a JVM-based language, and I completed it quickly—around a few hours—and sent it back with test cases and a README.

The way it ended still feels harsh to remember. A code review session was scheduled a couple of days later, and the rejection came immediately after that meeting, without any detailed review of my logic. The feedback was mostly about project “ceremony,” like needing the proper package structure for source and test files and including a driver program to run it. I didn’t attach a driver, so I think that got flagged even though