Great Netflix Data Engineer Interview Experience

I just went through 2 stages of the data engineering position and want to share some tips for those who are planning to go through it.
PS: I wasn't selected unfortunately but it was still a solid learning experience. Shoutout to the Recruiters, it was actually very nice contrary to what I've been seeing online.

Interview stages:
(1) Phone screen:

• Basic tell me regarding yourself and why you applied.
• What is the difference between a set and a list
• Different types of SQL JOINs
• Read up on the job and department you applied for
  This round was fairly easy

After 5 days, I landed a mail for the next stage

(2) Technical Screening:

• A LOT of computer science trivia problems.
• Talk regarding projects you have worked on.
• Know everything you can regarding distributed computing concepts (and everything lol). They want to understand how much you know and how well you understand computing concepts.
• Understand the Hadoop ecosystem
• Read up on their Engineering blog, a lot of nice information is on there
• Few tech areas that were covered:
  -- separate types of SQL JOINs
  -- Understand the complexity of different search and sort algorithms with explanations as to why they are nice or bad. (binary search)
  -- Questions on CI/CD and how they are handy
  -- Map Reduce concepts and example of how to implement it (verbally)!!
  -- Hadoop framework
  -- Understand the CAP theorem
  -- Understand probabilistic data structures
  -- A bit on statistics
  -- Understand unit testing and why they are key
  -- Asynchronous
  -- Hashing algorithms

Coding Part:

• String Manipulation questions in the language of your choice (do a ton of Leetcode and Hackerrank)
• A lot of simple SQL problems to find the top songs in a table etc.
• Read ALL the problems on Glassdoor! Almost all the areas listed on Glassdoor were questioned.

(3) Interview with 3 others (but I never made it this far)

After 2 days, I heard back from them.

SUMMARY:
Honestly, if you gig on really big data everyday, this should be a reasonable interview.

Best of luck.