Netflix·Data Engineer

Netflix Data Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I started right after applying, when a recruiter reached out the same day.

The HR call stood out as intense and very behavioral: they dug into projects listed on my resume, asked about relevant experience for the role, and went into why I wanted to join Netflix and why I was leaving my current position. We also discussed Netflix culture, and it felt clear they expected that to be on my radar.

After that, the interview shifted into a system design prompt that was kind of vague at first—designing a system for backing up files. I initially tried to interpret it like an object-oriented design problem, but I was quickly steered toward focusing on how the backup works in

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