Netflix·Systems Engineer

Netflix Systems Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Positive

Los Altos, CAPosted Sep 2023 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I started with a recruiter call that was mainly meant to get to know me.

Then I had an engineering manager conversation that was technical—focused on my previous work across distributed systems, which made it feel grounded in real engineering rather than just generic background questions.

After that, there was a technical phone screen where they let me know afterward that they were continuing with other candidates. That detail was a little jarring because it came right after the screen, before there was much time to hope.

I didn’t get an offer, and I left feeling like the feedback loop was fast and not very optimistic. Still, the technical manager conversation

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