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Senior Software Engineer Interview Experience - Los Altos, California

May 1, 2010
Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

I was called by the hiring manager and he was really good technically. He asked some fundamental Java questions like what is abstraction, OOPS concepts, and how to scale an application for a huge set of data.

I later got a 1:1 interview, and they offered me an onsite interview. The setup was very good, and the interviewers at the onsite were on time.

  • The first interviewer asked about an algorithm to distribute messages to different devices whenever there is some event.
  • The second interviewer was from marketing and was not very technical.
  • The third interviewer asked how to maintain user information when a user hits the Netflix site across different servers.

I gave him answers by mentioning session replication, cookies, or storing data in common storage.

I'm not sure what he was looking for; he was not clear in terms of the question itself.

Questions

How do you version webservices?

What is a singleton? Write code to implement a singleton.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 3 interview experiences for the Netflix Senior Software Engineer role in Los Altos, California.

Success Rate

0%
Pass Rate

Netflix's interview process for their Senior Software Engineer roles in Los Altos, California is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

Experience Rating

Positive67%
Neutral33%
Negative0%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Netflix's Senior Software Engineer interview process in Los Altos, California.

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