I was initially contacted directly by the hiring manager. However, since I was happily, full-time employed at a "top 10 best company to work" for, I wasn't very interested. I responded with a thank you and declined.

Next, I was contacted by a former coworker who was apparently now working for Netflix. He started heavily pitching Netflix to me as a unique place to work, but I was still not keen on the idea.

After this, the hiring manager apparently told him to take me to a paid Netflix lunch and try to sway me again. We had a good, long talk, and I began to really consider the idea. My former colleague convinced me to at least have a 30-minute phone call with the hiring manager, and I agreed.

She called me, and we chatted. During this entire time, she was again heavily pitching Netflix to me. I explained that I was fully employed and very happy, but she still persuaded me to come in for an interview, promising that it would only be for an hour, "just to meet everyone."

The next thing I knew, I was handed over to an HR person who scheduled me for a four-hour interview with five people, from 8:30 am to 12:30 pm. Meanwhile, the hiring manager personally called me to tell me I shouldn't worry about it and should just go with it. I was a little put off already but decided to give it a chance.

Well, I showed up, and they started grilling me on everything from Java to networking, DB administration, security, and protocols. After four non-stop hours of grilling, I was escorted out of the building by a recruiter who offered me nothing – not lunch, not even water. He did say, however, that he would get back to me within 24 hours.

Again, I didn't find Netflix; they found and pestered me. Then they caused me to miss four hours of work and my lunch break, and didn't even have the courtesy to offer me a drink afterward.

In the end, it took Netflix three weeks to get back to me. However, by that point, I had already decided I would NEVER EVER work for Netflix. They treat people like floor mats to wipe their shoes on.

A developer, without any background information, showed a printout of a stack trace and asked me to tell him what could be the problem causing it.

On the whiteboard, there was a picture of a server, database, and client. I was asked to point out all the possible failure points and explain how I would test for them.

I was asked how I would set up the data and the load/performance test for a retail website. I was also asked to list what statistics I would look at to determine that the system is healthy.

I was asked to design the infrastructure for a retail web application. This included explaining how a web server, a database, firewalls, and any other components would connect together.