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Netflix system design interview prep

Resilience, streaming delivery and strong engineering judgement.

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Hiring processes vary by role, level, team and year. This is a general outline compiled from publicly shared candidate reports and company career pages, not insider information. The practice prompts are exercises in each company's product domain, not actual interview questions.

Interview process

  1. 1

    Recruiter and team conversations

    Hiring is heavily team-driven, often for experienced engineers.

  2. 2

    Technical interviews

    Deep dives on past work, design and problem solving.

  3. 3

    Culture-fit conversations

    The culture memo and judgement under ambiguity matter.

  4. 4

    Decision

    Hiring manager led.

What they tend to emphasise

Resilience and failure isolationMicroservices and edge gatewaysCDN-based media deliveryMulti-region active-active designExperimentation and personalisation

Practice prompts

  • Design a global video streaming service.
  • Design a recommendation serving pipeline.
  • Design a chaos-testing platform for microservices.
  • Design an A/B experimentation platform.
  • Design multi-region failover for a stateful service.

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