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100 interview questions from past Netflix candidates

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Company question insights and frequency breakdown

Total Questions

100

Very Common

85

Categories

6

Reports

1815

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Question Categories

Fundamentals (42)
Databases (28)
Leadership (15)
Caching (8)
Message Queues (6)
Problem Solving (1)

Very Common Questions
85

These questions are frequently asked at this company

Netflix: Multi-Region Failover

Fundamentals
hard
20 reports
mcq

Palantir: Federated Data Architecture

Fundamentals
hard
20 reports
mcq

Coinbase: Transaction Processing Order

Message Queues
hard
20 reports
mcq

DoorDash: Search and Discovery

Databases
medium
20 reports
mcq

Coinbase: Transaction History at Scale

Databases
medium
20 reports
mcq

Coinbase: Wallet Balance Tracking

Databases
hard
20 reports
mcq

Database: ACID vs BASE

Databases
hard
20 reports
mcq

Consistency Model for Messaging Systems

Databases
hard
20 reports
mcq

Databricks: Incremental Processing

Fundamentals
medium
20 reports
mcq

Meta: Photo Upload at Scale

Fundamentals
medium
20 reports
mcq

What does ROW_NUMBER() OVER (PARTITION BY dept ORDER BY salary DESC) do?

Databases
medium
20 reports
mcq

Robinhood: Payment for Order Flow

Fundamentals
medium
20 reports
mcq

Meta: Instagram Story Architecture

Fundamentals
medium
20 reports
mcq

Palantir: Ontology-Driven Data Integration

Databases
medium
20 reports
mcq

Databricks: Data Skipping

Databases
medium
20 reports
mcq

Salesforce: Multi-Tenant Architecture Basics

Fundamentals
easy
20 reports
mcq

Apple: Memory Constraints

Fundamentals
hard
20 reports
mcq

Event Sourcing

Fundamentals
hard
20 reports
mcq

Databricks: Unity Catalog

Fundamentals
hard
20 reports
mcq

Debug a database deadlock issue

Databases
hard
20 reports
verbal

Salesforce: Shared Nothing vs Shared Everything

Fundamentals
hard
20 reports
mcq

Coinbase: Portfolio Tracking Dashboard

Fundamentals
medium
20 reports
mcq

Netflix: Event-Driven Architecture

Message Queues
medium
20 reports
mcq

Stripe: Idempotency Keys

Fundamentals
medium
20 reports
mcq

Twitter Tweet Storage: Database Choice

Databases
medium
20 reports
mcq

Netflix: Technical Debt Decisions

Problem Solving
hard
15 reports
mcq

Databricks: Data Lakehouse Architecture

Databases
easy
20 reports
mcq

Bloomberg: Pub-Sub Market Data Architecture

Fundamentals
medium
20 reports
mcq

Cache Invalidation: Write-Through vs Write-Behind

Caching
hard
20 reports
mcq

Databricks: Multi-Cloud Data Sharing

Databases
hard
20 reports
mcq

Database: Read Replicas

Databases
medium
20 reports
mcq

Load Balancing Algorithms

Fundamentals
medium
20 reports
mcq

DoorDash: Notification System

Message Queues
medium
20 reports
mcq

Design a Key-Value Store

Fundamentals
medium
20 reports
system design

Month-over-Month Revenue Growth

Databases
medium
20 reports
coding

Coinbase: Crypto Exchange Order Book

Fundamentals
hard
20 reports
mcq

DoorDash: Dynamic Pricing (Surge)

Fundamentals
hard
20 reports
mcq

Spotify: Playlist Follow Notifications

Message Queues
medium
20 reports
mcq

Database Replication

Databases
medium
20 reports
mcq

Design a caching strategy for an e-commerce product catalog

Caching
medium
20 reports
verbal

Uber: Eventual Consistency in Location Data

Caching
medium
20 reports
mcq

Design a URL Shortener

Fundamentals
medium
20 reports
system design

Spotify: Real-time Lyrics Sync

Fundamentals
medium
20 reports
mcq

ACID Properties

Databases
easy
20 reports
mcq

Cache Invalidation Strategies

Caching
medium
20 reports
mcq

Blue-Green Deployment

Fundamentals
medium
20 reports
mcq

Coinbase: Withdrawal Approval System

Fundamentals
hard
20 reports
mcq

Uber: Handling Network Partitions

Fundamentals
hard
20 reports
mcq

Explain database indexing to a new team member

Databases
hard
20 reports
verbal

CAP Theorem Trade-offs

Fundamentals
easy
20 reports
fill blank

Design a Web Crawler

Caching
medium
20 reports
system design

Top 3 Products Per Category

Databases
medium
20 reports
coding

Database: Indexing Strategy

Databases
medium
20 reports
mcq

Apple: Power vs Performance

Fundamentals
hard
20 reports
mcq

Circuit Breaker Pattern

Fundamentals
hard
20 reports
mcq

Databricks: Medallion Architecture

Fundamentals
hard
20 reports
mcq

Design a Distributed Cache

Caching
hard
20 reports
system design

LinkedIn: LinkedIn Learning Video Delivery

Fundamentals
hard
20 reports
mcq

Robinhood: Idempotency in Trading

Fundamentals
hard
20 reports
mcq

CAP Theorem

Databases
medium
20 reports
fill blank

Spotify: Discover Weekly Architecture

Fundamentals
hard
20 reports
mcq

Stripe: Designing for Exactly-Once Payments

Fundamentals
hard
20 reports
mcq

DoorDash: Merchant Integration

Fundamentals
hard
20 reports
mcq

DoorDash: Analytics Data Pipeline

Databases
medium
20 reports
mcq

LRU Cache Eviction

Caching
medium
20 reports
fill blank

Salesforce: Big Objects for Archival

Databases
hard
20 reports
mcq

Meta: News Feed Ranking

Fundamentals
medium
20 reports
mcq

Spotify: Cross-Device Handoff

Fundamentals
medium
20 reports
mcq

Robinhood: Settlement and Clearing

Fundamentals
medium
20 reports
mcq

Databricks: Spark DAG Execution

Fundamentals
easy
20 reports
mcq

Database Sharding: Choosing Shard Key

Databases
hard
20 reports
mcq

Coinbase: Audit Logging System

Fundamentals
hard
20 reports
mcq

When is a database index NOT used?

Databases
medium
20 reports
mcq

Coinbase: Price Alert Notifications

Fundamentals
medium
20 reports
mcq

Robinhood: Circuit Breaker Pattern

Fundamentals
hard
20 reports
mcq

Salesforce: Apex Bulkification Pattern

Fundamentals
medium
20 reports
mcq

Coinbase: Price Feed Caching

Caching
medium
20 reports
mcq

Organization Hierarchy (Recursive CTE)

Databases
hard
20 reports
coding

Employees Above Department Average

Databases
medium
20 reports
coding

Spotify: Concert Recommendations

Fundamentals
medium
20 reports
mcq

Uber: Processing Driver Location Updates

Message Queues
hard
20 reports
mcq

Airbnb: Real-Time Search Filtering

Fundamentals
medium
20 reports
mcq

What is the N+1 query problem?

Databases
medium
20 reports
mcq

Databricks: Liquid Clustering

Databases
medium
20 reports
mcq

Stripe: Async Payment Processing

Message Queues
hard
20 reports
mcq

Common Questions
15

Regularly reported by candidates

Leading Without Authority

Leadership
hard
8 reports
mcq

Netflix: No Brilliant Jerks

Leadership
medium
8 reports
mcq

Netflix: Owning Outcomes

Leadership
hard
8 reports
mcq

Receiving Difficult Feedback

Leadership
medium
8 reports
mcq

Difficult Team Member

Leadership
hard
8 reports
mcq

DoorDash: Initiative Beyond Role

Leadership
medium
8 reports
mcq

Behavioral: Conflict Question

Leadership
medium
8 reports
mcq

Process Improvement Initiative

Leadership
medium
8 reports
mcq

Databricks: Driving Impact

Leadership
hard
8 reports
mcq

LinkedIn: Demand Excellence

Leadership
medium
8 reports
mcq

Critical Decision Without Complete Information

Leadership
medium
8 reports
mcq

Managing Technical Debt

Leadership
hard
8 reports
mcq

DoorDash: Mentoring

Leadership
medium
8 reports
mcq

Amazon LP: Thinking Big

Leadership
medium
8 reports
mcq

LinkedIn: Members First

Leadership
medium
8 reports
mcq

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