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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System Design
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hard
Design the 'Continue Watching' feature for Netflix. How do you handle the high volume of playback progress writes from millions of concurrent devices while ensuring low-latency reads when a user switches devices?
#Microservices
#Cassandra
#Event Sourcing
#Eventual Consistency
Software Engineer
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System Design
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hard
Design Netflix's global CDN (Open Connect) routing architecture. When a user clicks play, how does the system determine the optimal edge server to stream the video from?
#CDN
#Networking
#Distributed Systems
#Load Balancing
Software Engineer
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System Design
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hard
Design a real-time aggregation system to calculate and display the 'Top 10 Trending Shows' for different geographical regions.
#Stream Processing
#Kafka
#Redis
#Data Aggregation
Software Engineer
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System Design
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medium
Design a distributed rate limiter for the Netflix login service to prevent credential stuffing and brute-force attacks across multiple global regions.
#Security
#Redis
#Distributed Systems
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