Netflix·Software Engineer

Netflix Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I went into Netflix expecting a fairly standard mix of coding and problem-solving, and that’s what I got.

The session started with three coding questions about strings: finding the longest continuous subarray of identical strings, finding the longest subarray without duplicates, and finding all pairs of strings without any common characters. I gave an O(n^2) approach for the last one, and I never got pushed to optimize further, which made me feel like my time was being managed differently than I expected.

After the coding, I had about half an hour of discussion about my work experience and technical issues, and then the problem-solving section shifted to a kind of deduplication task—removing

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