Netflix Software Engineer interview experience

The questions were vague, and the whole thing felt uncomfortable—almost like I was being thrown into a technical screen.

A hiring manager call followed, and that one felt much more intense in a typical behavioral-and-values format. They were direct about performance in a way that was unpleasant but clear. Then I had a coding interview that was partly systems-oriented. I did well for most of it, but near the end I ran into an optimization moment: they pushed for a specific optimization before I had room to explore improvements. I offered a better optimization, but they seemed to require a