NetApp

Software Engineer Interview Experience - Sunnyvale, California

May 1, 2010

Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Submitted resume online.

A recruiter contacted me and set up a phone interview.

Had a phone interview a week later, mostly some technical questions.

Went to an on-site interview and met 6 people.

Managers tend to ask behavioral questions, while engineers ask technical questions.

Questions

What's the biggest conflict you had with your coworker? How did you resolve it?

How can you reverse words in a string without using extra memory?

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 12 interview experiences for the NetApp Software Engineer role in Sunnyvale, California.

Success Rate

58%

Pass Rate

NetApp's interview process for their Software Engineer roles in Sunnyvale, California is on the easier side as most engineers get an offer after going through it.

Experience Rating

Positive75%

Neutral25%

Negative0%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for NetApp's Software Engineer interview process in Sunnyvale, California.

NetApp Work Experiences

Good work. Good culture

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Sunnyvale, California, United States

Pros: Good work culture and a good type of work.

Cons: Not many perks with respect to holidays.

Good work. Good culture

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Sunnyvale, California, United States

Pros: Good work culture and a good type of work.

Cons: Not many perks with respect to holidays.

Not the best place if you want to grow fast

Software Engineer • Former Employee

Sunnyvale, California, United States

Pros: Good co-workers. Lots of energy and an enthusiastic young workforce. Excellent office buildings and an onsite gym.

Cons: Not the best place to advance your career, especially if you are a mid-entry level engineer. Managers act as hurdles to your growth rather than facilitating it. Management has become very conservative due to failures in the past. You will not like it here if you like some space and decision-making powers to work on things you like. Favoritism amongst top management.

Not the best place if you want to grow fast

Software Engineer • Former Employee

Sunnyvale, California, United States

Pros: Good co-workers. Lots of energy and an enthusiastic young workforce. Excellent office buildings and an onsite gym.

Cons: Not the best place to advance your career, especially if you are a mid-entry level engineer. Managers act as hurdles to your growth rather than facilitating it. Management has become very conservative due to failures in the past. You will not like it here if you like some space and decision-making powers to work on things you like. Favoritism amongst top management.

Big Perks, Too Much Work

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Sunnyvale, California, United States

February 1, 2011

Pros: It has big company perks.

Cons: It's got too much work.

Big Perks, Too Much Work

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Sunnyvale, California, United States

February 1, 2011

Pros: It has big company perks.

Cons: It's got too much work.

Good work. Good culture

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Sunnyvale, California, United States

Pros: Good work culture and a good type of work.

Cons: Not many perks with respect to holidays.

5.0
Good work. Good culture
Software Engineer • Current Employee
Sunnyvale, California, United States
July 12, 2012
Pros: Good work culture and a good type of work.
Cons: Not many perks with respect to holidays.

Not the best place if you want to grow fast

Software Engineer • Former Employee

Sunnyvale, California, United States

Pros: Good co-workers. Lots of energy and an enthusiastic young workforce. Excellent office buildings and an onsite gym.

Cons: Not the best place to advance your career, especially if you are a mid-entry level engineer. Managers act as hurdles to your growth rather than facilitating it. Management has become very conservative due to failures in the past. You will not like it here if you like some space and decision-making powers to work on things you like. Favoritism amongst top management.

2.0
Not the best place if you want to grow fast
Software Engineer • Former Employee
Sunnyvale, California, United States
April 19, 2013
Pros: Good co-workers. Lots of energy and an enthusiastic young workforce. Excellent office buildings and an onsite gym.
Cons: Not the best place to advance your career, especially if you are a mid-entry level engineer. Managers act as hurdles to your growth rather than facilitating it. Management has become very conservative due to failures in the past. You will not like it here if you like some space and decision-making powers to work on things you like. Favoritism amongst top management.

Big Perks, Too Much Work

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Sunnyvale, California, United States

February 1, 2011

Pros: It has big company perks.

Cons: It's got too much work.

4.0
Big Perks, Too Much Work
Software Engineer • Current Employee
Sunnyvale, California, United States
February 1, 2011
Pros: It has big company perks.
Cons: It's got too much work.

NetApp Interview Questions

Find First and Last Position of Element in Sorted Array

Given a sorted array, find the first and last position of a given target value. If the target is not found, return [-1, -1].

ArraysBinary Search

LRU Cache

Design a data structure that acts as a Least Recently Used (LRU) cache. Implement methods to get and put key-value pairs, evicting the least recently used entry when the cache is full.

Move Zeroes

Given an array, rearrange it so that all zeros are moved to the end while maintaining the relative order of the non-zero elements.

ArraysTwo Pointers

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