Netflix interview notes, page 11 of 20

“Seemed simple at first and I almost said 'just use a hashmap' before catching myself.” 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.

“Brute force was the obvious first move and I said so, but she shut that down fast and asked for an inverted index approach.” 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.

“I knew the high-level answer but fumbled when they pushed on the likelihood framing.” 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.

“I started with engagement metrics and the interviewer kind of just waited, like they wanted more.” 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 naive approach is obvious: for each user grab their last K movies as a set, then do pairwise intersections across all users.” 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.

“Sliding window with a hashmap, pretty standard once you see it.” 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 question is deceptively big.” 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.

“Bread and butter ML question.” 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.

“Started with the obvious O(n^2) loop comparing every pair character by character, which they accepted but clearly wanted more.” 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 knew the answer existed but fumbled the variance argument at first.” 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.