Lengthy. Talked with a recruiter followed by a tech screen followed by a full day of interviews with some members of the team and Netflix leadership. Netflix still interviews by asking whiteboard questions that have no real bearing on how good of an engineer you are, but instead how good you are at solving pointless puzzles on the spot. They push their culture but the interview process is biased towards individuals that think a certain way which leads to less innovation and outside the box brainstorming within teams. I've worked at places that had similar hiring processes and opted to decline Netflix's offer as I have no desire to work in a similar environment.
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Both the question in the initial phone screen and the questions later felt like the interviewers went to leet code or something similar and just selected something at random. I doubt my answers gave them any real info regarding how well I would do as an engineer at a company like Netflix with their complicated API systems.
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Netflix in Apr 2021
Interview
Initial recruiter phone screen.
2-3 weeks later set up for a manager phone interview.
Was given the opportunity for a take home assessment (make sure you test well if you are given this opportunity).
Moved on to virtual onsite 4hr interview which included simple coding question and OO design question, system design question, and a code review of the take home project. Wrapped up with manager chat.
Was declined to move on to day 2 interview.
All in all it was a good experience. It was a bit time consuming but totally understand why they have this process set up the way they do.
May try again in the future.
I applied online. I interviewed at Netflix (San Francisco, CA) in Jan 2021
Interview
Theres no process, you are at the whim and fancy of the recruiter and the hiring manager.
The company is exact opposite of what they claim to be in their culture doc.
They don't have the basic culture of valuing the candidate's time. The recruiters are dumb. The candidate is given no hint of what each interview is about, you keep guessing what the interviewer is going to ask, it's a messed up process.
You can be assured that the work culture and the experience once you join would be no different inside the company.
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Question 1
Typical culture questions, while some interviews were reasonable, its mostly random coding or design questions that did not make any sense.