Software Senior Interview Questions

Senior Software Engineer

Interviewed at Netflix

4.1★

Aug 13, 2013

Given two sets A & B, get unique elements from each set in an optimal way. Merge Sort Multithreading - How to run threads A,B and C in a sequence

Senior Software Engineer

Interviewed at Netflix

4.1★

Jan 29, 2014

Complete implementation of an html front-end with full markup and all scripts and tests-Done on a whiteboard in 20 minutes.

Senior Software Engineer In Test

Interviewed at Netflix

4.1★

Nov 8, 2014

Given the functions Up(), Down(), Left(), Right(), Enter() write the function that would take Str (like Hobbit:_Unexpected_Journey) and type it using keypad (the kind you have on Smart TVs, etc.)

Senior Software Engineer

Interviewed at Netflix

4.1★

Jan 9, 2016

What feedback would your peers give you if you ask them for some criticism? How do you handle brilliant jerks?

Senior Software Engineer

Interviewed at Netflix

4.1★

Apr 20, 2016

Last round was about operations. Interviewer was an operations engineer and we discussed a lot of high level design and how to run live production systems with no downtime. We talked about some distributed systems problems, rolling out code to production, monitoring etc.

Senior Software Engineer

Interviewed at Netflix

4.1★

Dec 31, 2019

Walk through a directory-like structure, outputting the names of folders and files. Each folder/file should be indented to the left according to its level from the root, and also should have the number of files it contains overall beneath it. E.g.: ------ docs(3) -marketing(3) --october(2) ---file.doc ---invoice.doc --november(1) ---new_invoice.doc -publications(0) screens(1) -screen1.png ------

Senior Software Engineer

Interviewed at Netflix

4.1★

Dec 31, 2019

Design a system that is able to process N types of jobs - i.e. job of types A, B, C, etc. The pipelines of jobs per type should be independent, i.e. a long-running job A should block only the queue of jobs A, but not block the queue of jobs B. And the results from each type of job queues should be delivered in the order of input.

Senior Software Engineer

Interviewed at Netflix

4.1★

Aug 9, 2018

Small 20-min size questions to code a problem up on a whiteboard

Senior Software Engineer

Interviewed at Netflix

4.1★

Dec 14, 2009

What experience do you have working with databases.

Senior Software Engineer

Interviewed at Netflix

4.1★

Aug 20, 2010

What is singleton? Write code to implement singleton?