Netflix interview notes, page 10 of 20

“I went with the in-degree BFS approach because I'd drilled it recently and felt more confident there.” 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 trying to map out where users actually get stuck, like finding the right help article, troubleshooting playback issues, or figuring out billing stuff.” 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.

“Started with a plain hash map and explained why, which felt almost too obvious.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Netflix, Onsite - System Design / Architecture round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I started with a plain stack for the no-tag case, which was fine, but the tag-based undo is where things got interesting.” 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.

“Knew immediately it was a sliding window problem, which felt good.” 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 recognized it as a sliding window problem pretty fast, which helped.” 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 with Redis and sliding window counters which felt right, but then the interviewer pushed on what happens across datacenters and I kind of stumbled.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Netflix, Onsite - System Design / Architecture round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I knew it was a gaps-and-islands type problem the second I saw it, which helped.” 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.

“Basically a set lookup problem.” 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 started straightforward and then got uncomfortable fast.” 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.