Recruiter reached out on LinkedIn, followed by a quick phone screening.

Next was a technical phone screening with the hiring manager. They asked about my past projects, a high-level understanding of data structures and algorithms, and some deep dives on libraries used in the past. There were also a few behavioral questions, nothing complicated.

Then it was an onsite, with three rounds: one coding, one system design, and one behavioral.

The system design round was with the engineering director. All the questions were mostly LeetCode type, though not exactly the same. It seemed like they had very specific requirements with respect to exposure and self-designed loops. In my case, it was infrastructure, with a few deep dives on edge cases.

The behavioral round with the hiring manager was around the Netflix culture memo; make sure to take a look. Luckily, I did two rounds of mock interviews with an ex-Netflix SWE on Prepfully, and that helped a lot.

Apart from that, polish concepts on OOPs, multithreading, data structures, and algorithms. That should be enough, I guess.

What is MapReduce and where is it used?