Netflix Senior Software Engineer interview questions

I gave interview for L5 position. First, recruiter screening. Next, I has coding assessment with a team member from the team that was hiring. It was a medium level difficulty question. Very vague question and you need to ask many questions to clarify the requirements. Its important to code fast as they have follow up questions.

Unnecessarily long and convoluted interview process. This company doesn’t know who it wants to hire so it wastes candidates time. Starts with an intensive recruiter screen who acts as if they are the hiring manager, then a screen with an engineer on the team part behavioral, part unexpected pop quiz. Then a lengthy take home assignment that will consume your entire weekend to complete. Then 5 rounds of onsite interviews assessed by egotistical narcissists that are part of the Netflix cult. They will nitpick the minutiae of the detail in the interview to find reasons to reject: didn’t work on “complex” enough projects, syntax wasn’t perfect, etc. The interviewer was unfamiliar with the technologies I used in the system design interview and used that insecurity to doubt my design. If I passed that portion of onsite interviews there would be another round of onsite. Complete insanity. Will never interview with this company again.