I was selected via an on-campus placement drive. The process kicked off with a HackerRank-based MCQ exam, which had 60 questions of medium difficulty on OS, Cloud, Networking, Virtualization, Aptitude, and Verbal topics. Twenty-two of us were shortlisted from there for the interviews. No specific cutoff was revealed for the test.

We had four interviews:

• Two technical interviews of increasing difficulty.
• One managerial interview, which was purely behavioral.
• The last was a director round interview taken by directors from the Bangalore and Pune offices.

The first technical interview was based on the basics of networking, TCP/IP layers, protocols, hardware basics, and the Nutanix tech stack. They genuinely look for people passionate about working at Nutanix, so researching the products Nutanix offers is important. This information is available on their website, and you can simply read and understand it because everyone will get a question on that.

Moving on, the second interview had slightly tougher questions from OS, Networking, and hardware. A few I remember are Deadlock and its conditions, practical examples of it, the difference between HDD and SDD (which I knew being a gamer), components of a DVD, BIOS, DNS, and Linux Commands.

After this, four of us reached the Manager round, and that was behavioral, testing your cultural fit and willingness to work and learn at Nutanix.

Two of us moved forward to the director round. Mine was taken by Abhinav Sir, and my friend's by Ashwin Sir. The director interview was very engaging and a mix of behavioral, HR, and technical questions. The tech discussion varied from the difference between 5G and 4G to what happens during a Google Search. The behavioral questions consisted of my experiences, responses to situations, and also how I would respond to being asked for a coffee in the office. He started off by asking me to present my questions to him. This was something new, as this is usually asked at the end of interviews. It was an overall very engaging discussion.

All the interviewers were very helpful, polite, and you could sense they were experts in their domains. The tech stack discussed was vast. The interviews really added value to my own understanding and were enjoyable. They were all in one day, but it never felt tedious or tiring at all.

DHCP Protocol

Difference between HDD and SDD

What is BIOS

How would you try and repair your wi-fi before contacting support

Components of a DVD

What is a Hyperconverged Infrastructure, Hybrid Multi Cloud and how Nutanix helps you with it

Linux Commands