The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Netflix in May 2012
Interview
The original one hour phone interview was straight forward. It consisted of a combination of java programming questions and straight forward algorithm questions. This was followed up by a Skype session with another developer and a shared whiteboard for coding problems.
I was the flown in for full day interview with the group is was interested in. The environment is very relaxed with an office layout that is the standard cubicles, with a lot of informal communication going on.
The question in the interview were straightforward and ranged from graph problems to practical issues running a distributed big data environment like eventual consistency and load balancing.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Explain the concept of eventual consistency and the issues this has with multiple users.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at Netflix in Dec 2011
Interview
Recruiter Contacted me over Linkedin. Then we dicussed about my experience both past and current. She asked about the future role that I am looking forward for. Then due to time constraints, she explained a little bit about the company and asked me to check their 2 presentation online on Careers website about Netflix culture.