Nutanix·Software Engineer

Nutanix Software Engineer interview experience

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BengaluruPosted Aug 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I went through an on-campus hiring flow geared toward SRE, and the structure made it clear this wasn’t a coding-heavy path.

Before the interviews, there was a fairly large test at the start—200 students with about 60 questions in 60 minutes covering core fundamentals like networking, Linux, OS, and cloud computing.

After that, the technical interviews followed in stages. In the first technical round, I covered basics of networking, Linux, OS, and there was also some company-culture checking. The second technical round required me to go deeper into layers 2–4 networking concepts in detail, along with Linux and OS concepts, plus basic virtualization and OS. There was also some discussion of hyperconverged

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