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Software Engineering Intern Interview Experience - Sunnyvale, California

March 1, 2012
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Process

I was invited to the onsite Discover NetApp hiring event, which consisted of a lunch and five interviews with different departments and hiring managers. They offered travel expenses, including gas reimbursement, flight arrangements, and hotels.

After the lunch with all 13 internship candidates and some new grad hires, we were led into a conference room, where we stayed the entire day and interviewers came to us. We had 15-minute breaks between interviews.

Each interviewer had his/her own interviewing style. Some explained what their department does, others only asked questions about my experience and resume, and about half of them asked coding questions. Coding questions were on data structures:

  • Linked lists
  • Binary search trees (and traversing them with postorder and inorder)
  • Hash tables

I also received questions on File I/O. There was a whiteboard available if we wished to code on it; however, most interviewers were satisfied with verbal pseudocode. Interviewers were sometimes difficult to understand due to their thick accents.

Most of the candidates, including me, received offers the same day of the interview.

Questions

Write a function to construct a binary search tree given a string in postorder notation ("abcdefg").

Write a function to return the nth to last node of a linked list with order O(n).

What is the difference between Javascript and HTML?

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Success Rate

100%
Pass Rate

NetApp's interview process for their Software Engineering Intern roles in Sunnyvale, California is incredibly easy as the vast majority of engineers get an offer after going through it.

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

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