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Senior Software Engineer Interview Experience

May 3, 2019
Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Standard FANG multi-session interview, but for lunch I was given a boxed salad and told to eat it alone in a conference room because everyone else was going to a party.

Saddest interview experience of my life.

Questions

How would you design a hierarchical database for server configuration? It should support both simple lookups for /foo/bar/baz/key and overriding values at arbitrary, non-prefix levels like /*/bar/*/key = 42.

In an elevator control system, write a method that picks the elevator that should respond to a button press.

Teams are independent and known to disregard security in the interest of moving fast. Given that you have no authority over them, how would you persuade them to secure their services?

If you're writing an internal framework or library and release a great, new feature, how do you get teams to upgrade and adopt it? (There is no mono-repo).

I hate to put "general questions about design and technology", but that's really what it was: quasi-casual conversations about resume, culture, and technology without any specific questions as such. 30 seconds on "how do you think aspect-oriented frameworks are implemented?", another 30 seconds on "what do you think of Spring Boot?", two minutes talking about a point on the resume, etc.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 96 interview experiences for the Netflix Senior Software Engineer role in United States.

Success Rate

15%
Pass Rate

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

Experience Rating

Positive38%
Neutral24%
Negative39%

Candidates reported having mixed feelings for Netflix's Senior Software Engineer interview process in United States.

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