Netflix Interview Questions & Reviews in Los Gatos, CA

Interview Details – Netflix recruiter contacted me on LinkedIn. Few days later, I had a telephonic conversation with the recruiter where she described the role and I talked about what I'm doing and what I'm looking for. After that there were 2 telephonic interviews. Most of the questions were easy. They were from BST, core java etc.

In the f2f interviews, I had 4 rounds (45 mins earch) and, 3 of them were technical. They asked me to implement Insertion sort, check for valid BST, k-means clustering (I was interviewing for ML related role), design a mobile app that recommends nearby playing movies. Except Insertion sort, I think I did well.

I felt the process was smooth and the ppl were nice. The only thing i didn't like was that they didn't contacted me after the interview. I followed up with them later and then they said I'm not a good fit.

Interview Details – Applied on linkedin and got a call from recruiter. After two phone interviews asked me to come for an onsite interview. After seeing lot of negative reviews (layoff's) I totally lost interest in the company. first interview went well with some coding and analytical questions. Next found another interviewer to be arrogant, he is well prepared with his questions and not even willing to listen my answers or approaches. I decided there itself its not the company i want to work for with lot of arrogant people and layoff's and stopped giving answers anyways the guy is not listening. Next comes the interview with an hiring manager asked couple of questions which are general but can see lot of arrogance in his body language. I felt like I want to leave and don't the interview anymore and showed it in my body language and the manager found it and asked that they are looking for senior people. There I left the interview in between and saved an hour of time. I already had couple of offers in my hand and was very picky when comes to work culture.

Interview Details – Hiring process was superfast. Hiring manager contacted me on linked in and then recruiter called to setup phone conversion with hiring manager. Phone conversation actually turned out to be technical screening with another engineer in addition to hiring manager asking questions related to resume. Same day recruiter called to arrange onsite interview which was scheduled a week later. Onsite interview consisted 4 rounds, 3 technical and 1 with recruiter. Interview was related to my resume and job requirements. It was not too difficult. However, they were stressing upon the performance of the each individual from the beginning. I really felt like they are saying, if they don't like someones work, they will fire him. They don't have any organizational process to follow and everyone is free to follow his own process. I knew right from the beginning that I wasn't the right fit there. Interview experience was neutral.

Interview Details – I was contacted by a recruiter and had the first interview. I did quite well about my experience. The recruiter did not have much experience about giving case interview. I asked some clarifying questions to understand more about the case. She just repeated the case again and again without giving out much information. Because case interview usually gives both sides opportunities to talk and communicate and solve the problem. Besides, this company has a high turnover. It seems very aggressive environment to work there.

Interview Details – Hiring and Interview process was pleasant and efficient unlike actually working at Netflix.

Negotiation Details – Negotiation phase was brief and positive.

Interview Details – The process was smooth. People were very professional and nice. I did pretty good with technical questions but they were not happy with my answer to why I want to join this group. They declined saying that everybody liked you but we dont think there is a match.

Interview Details – Recruiter contacted me and upon sending them my resume they scheduled 30 minutes call where they explained about Nexflix and its culture. After that they scheduled a 45 minutes phone interview. After the phone interview they asked me for an In-Person interview which was scheduled with 4 people. A hiring manager, 2 senior developers and one QA engineer.

Interview Details – I was not actively seeking a new job, but was contacted via LinkedIn by a persistent recruiter who asked me to reconsider the position when the discussion had grown cold after several weeks. (Apparently they were having trouble filling the position).

I was pretty comprehensive job explaining my background/interests/skill set, had a phone screen with the recruiter, spoke with several people on their research team via Skype and telephone, and was invited to their campus for an interview.

I was curious to see how Netflix's approach to research had changed (if at all) in the year since the Qwickster debacle, and so figured I'd chat with them. Had they figured out how to understand user needs and contexts? Was there opportunity for a guy like me there? Why not find out?

A schedule of interviews was provided, but it changed at the last minute. Not a big deal, but it did raise a small red flag. Bigger deal -- the position had been presented as a Director role, but had watered down to a Senior Manager role for the interview. Had there been mutual interest after the on-site interview, I'd have brought this up ex post facto, but there wasn't.

The first person to interview me was a recruiting lead, who took some basic notes on my background. I interviewed with two VPs. One was aggressive and somewhat belittling. The other was pleasant, but nonspecific about the role.

The overall onsite interview process was somewhat surreal for a tech company. In fact, it felt more like an interview at a somewhat self-important Midwestern manufacturing company than a top Silicon Valley employer.

An excessive portion of the discussion focused around minutiae of my work history (like most qual professionals, I've had several stints of about 18 months to gain progressive experience and increase my compensation). A somewhat arrogant (and completely false) subtext of "you must not have worked out at those jobs" was proffered, curious for a firm that claims to want ambitious people rather than tenured chair warmers. While it was mildly insulting, it was also easily brushed aside.

Most surprising to me was the entirely conventional nature of their research operation, which likely explains why we mutually did not sense a good fit (and possibly why they seem to be having trouble hiring for the position). Their operation appears to be an extremely basic (almost old fashioned) marketing research job, where "qualitative research" consists of focus groups and conventional in-lab work. More advanced UCD practices seemed absent, and one of the interviewers actually seemed to get annoyed with me when I focused on a discussion of UCD as the center of high impact strategic qual. That certainly contrasted markedly with the description of the position I'd received in previous phone/Skype discussions.

As part of this discussion, I was asked to describe "my research process," and when I described individual bespoke initiatives, got interrupted a few times by a slightly annoyed interviewer. I never got to fully explain an end-to-end project, which was a bit disappointing. (I'm not really a believer in one-size-fits all cookie-cutter processes.)

About ten minutes into the interview with the first VP, I'd pretty much decided I wasn't interested. After the second VP interview, the recruiter came in and cut the process short (as is their standard) with a standard "we're not interested in moving forward, we have no feedback" line. I breathed a sigh of relief -- I could have my afternoon back!

'm not sure that an ambitious and successful member of UPA, IXDA or QRCA would be especially excited by this opening. In their favor, the HR representatives were communicative (and persistent), but I would rank the on-site interview process as well below average from a candidate perspective.

Interview Details – The interview process drags out at Netflix. By the time I was finished I had met about 7 people. I met future colleagues, an HR VP, the department director and the department VP. They want you to meet the whole world including wasting upper management's time. It doesn't matter what level the position is.

Negotiation Details – There is room for negotiation. I got an offer from another company at the same time and Netflix increased my salary to win me over.