Netflix
Streaming platform with a data-driven culture and freedom & responsibility ethos.
3 Rounds
~14 Days
Hard
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Interview Question Bank
Software Engineer
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Coding
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hard
Implement a data structure that supports adding streaming latency metrics as they arrive and retrieving the median latency in O(1) or O(log N) time.
#Heaps
#Data Streams
#System Monitoring
Software Engineer
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Coding
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medium
You are given a list of personalized movie recommendation lists from different ML microservices. Each list is sorted by relevance score. Write a function to merge them into a single sorted list.
#Linked Lists
#Priority Queue
#Divide and Conquer
Software Engineer
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Coding
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medium
Design and implement an LRU (Least Recently Used) Cache. How would you modify your implementation to be thread-safe for a high-concurrency environment like a metadata caching layer?
#Hash Map
#Doubly Linked List
#Concurrency
Software Engineer
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Coding
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medium
You are given a string representing a user's search query and a dictionary of valid movie titles. Write a function to determine if the query can be segmented into a space-separated sequence of valid titles.
#Dynamic Programming
#Trie
#Strings
Software Engineer
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Coding
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hard
Given an array of server CPU loads over time, find the maximum load in every sliding window of size K to monitor streaming health anomalies.
#Sliding Window
#Deque
#Arrays
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