Netflix
Streaming platform with a data-driven culture and freedom & responsibility ethos.
3 Rounds
~14 Days
Hard
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Data Engineer
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System Design
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hard
Design a real-time data pipeline to process video playback events (play, pause, buffer, stop) from millions of concurrent client devices to calculate real-time viewing metrics and feed the recommendation engine.
#Kafka
#Apache Flink
#Stream Processing
#Event Sourcing
Data Engineer
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System Design
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hard
Design a batch ETL pipeline to aggregate daily billing and subscription data for millions of users. How do you ensure exactly-once processing and idempotency in case of pipeline failures and retries?
#Idempotency
#Batch Processing
#Data Quality
#Airflow
Data Engineer
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System Design
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hard
Design a system to ingest client-side telemetry data (e.g., UI clicks, scroll depth, hover times) from the Netflix UI. How do you handle schema evolution when UI engineers frequently add new tracking fields?
#Data Ingestion
#Schema Evolution
#Avro/Protobuf
#Kafka
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