Netflix interview notes, page 1 of 20

“Used a window function to get the first date per user, then joined back on the same table filtering where the date difference was within 7 days.” The rest of the author's notes on Data Scientist interview at Netflix, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This is a lot to pack into one query and I fumbled the D1 retention part first.” The rest of the author's notes on Data Scientist interview at Netflix, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“The 'first-ever order' part is straightforward once you think MIN(order_date) grouped by user, but I initially forgot I needed to join that back against the date spine and almost counted repeat buyers.” The rest of the author's notes on Data Scientist interview at Netflix, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Knew the base problem cold so I jumped straight into the recursion.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Netflix, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This part felt fine until they asked about the gap in prior work.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Netflix, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“They added this round because my earlier coding performance was 'mixed', which, fair enough.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Netflix, Onsite - Coding / Algorithms round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Walked through term frequency and inverse document frequency separately before tying them together.” The rest of the author's notes on Machine Learning Engineer interview at Netflix, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“They didn't want code, just the reasoning, which honestly made it harder in a weird way.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Netflix, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I started by anchoring on why referrals even make sense for Netflix specifically, which felt like the right move but ate up a lot of time before I got to anything concrete.” The rest of the author's notes on Product Manager interview at Netflix, Onsite - Product Sense / Strategy round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“The base implementation was fine, I went with Kahn's and got through it cleanly.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Netflix, Onsite - Coding / Algorithms round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.