Netflix Phone Interview
I spoke with a hiring manager at Netflix today. I'm about to schedule the technical screen and am wondering how best to prepare. Sounds like it'll be problem solving, coding and design focused. Team is looking for distributed systems skills / infrastructure skills. How best to prepare?
Make sure to read the cultural deck.
Definitely got that one down.
How did you got phone call. I never get reply from Netflix!
They reached out to me. I never considered them before.
LinkedIn ?
What team/role?
I was told by a friend that works there that the only coding you do is a take home test.
No leetcode?
Nope. This is why there isn’t a Netflix section in LC and similar websites.
Leetcode and Designing Data Intensive applications book helps. Online phone screen I was asked Leetcode Merge Overlapping Intervals question and follow up was to change to use Java Generics. They started GoLang these days so not sure if Generics are still the bar for Netflix.
Hey thanks for this, HM mentioned I don't need to know Java so hopefully I can avoid that type of follow up. DDIA was definitely a resource I was going to use.
My phone screen had questions on thread pool and design patterns. Onsite covered pretty much everything in 8 interviews - Java, spring, SQL, concurrency, system design, ds & algo, approach to software development, past projects and a lot of behavioural questions. I didn't get through because of culture fit so yes it is true that they really focus on culture fit and it is best to spend more time on that than tech. If you have been coding and have decent understanding of ds and algorithms, you will find tech questions to be on the level of 2-3/5.
netflix and chill 😉😉