Netflix·Software Engineer

Netflix Software Engineer interview experience

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Negative

United StatesPosted Sep 2023 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My virtual onsite felt hectic from the start, and it didn’t help that logistics went sideways.

The interview topic changed last-minute, and there were coordination issues—like a recruiting coordinator calling while an interview was still in progress. I couldn’t tell whether it was genuinely chaotic or just bad luck landing on me, but it set a stressful tone.

The coding portion was also difficult in a specific way: the problem was vaguely scoped and tied to something claimed to be practical and production-related. The interviewer didn’t seem willing to clarify the statement or discuss trade-offs, so I spent time trying to interpret what “the practical” expectation even meant. There was

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