Netflix interview notes, page 16 of 20

“It's basically the classic sliding window substring problem but with show titles as the elements.” 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 went straight to LRU because it felt like the expected answer, and it is, but I fumbled the explanation of why a doubly-linked list plus a hashmap gives you O(1) on both ends.” 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 at the impression level and worked upward, which in hindsight was the wrong call.” 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.

“The dedup part clicked pretty fast.” 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 the sliding window pattern pretty fast since it's basically the same idea as the single-string version.” 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 basically four questions stitched together and I felt it the whole time.” 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.

“Felt pretty solid on this one.” 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.

“The problem sounds manageable until you sit with the phase boundary.” 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.

“The interviewer noticed I work in ads and suggested we reframe the problem around that context, which was a nice touch.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Netflix, Online Assessment (OA) round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I knew the sliding window approach cold from the classic version, so I felt fine until they said bitmask.” 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.