Company Knowledge & Culture Topics
Topics covering understanding a company's business model, product portfolio, strategy, culture, values, leadership, and organizational dynamics for interview preparation and market research.
Questions About Netflix and Role
Guides candidates on preparing thoughtful, targeted questions to ask interviewers about the company, team, and role. Candidates should prepare technical questions about backend infrastructure such as microservices architecture, caching and content delivery strategies, incident response and on call practices, observability and deployment processes, as well as career questions about mentorship, growth paths, and how success is measured. Well chosen questions demonstrate curiosity, role fit, and that the candidate has researched Netflix and the specific team.
Motivation & Interest in Netflix
Exploration of what motivates a candidate to join Netflix, including alignment with Netflix's culture, values, product philosophy, and strategic direction, and how their background and goals fit with the company's mission and team dynamics.
Netflix Culture and Values
Covers the candidate ability to understand, adapt to, and thrive within Netflix style cultural principles that emphasize freedom paired with responsibility. Interviewers probe how a candidate operates with high autonomy given clear context, how they set guardrails and make decisions with minimal process, and how they accept accountability for outcomes. Candidates should be ready to describe concrete examples showing independent decision making, trade off judgement, how they established alignment when given latitude, how they solicited and integrated feedback, and how they handled mistakes or course corrections. The description also includes demonstrating candor, transparency about assumptions, and practices for scaling high performance while maintaining team norms and psychological safety.
Role and Interview Expectations
Prepare to discuss what the backend role entails at the target company and what the interview will evaluate. Candidates should understand common responsibilities such as owning services end to end working on system design performance and reliability and collaborating with product and operations. Be ready to ask and answer questions about team structure product priorities success metrics technology stack on call responsibilities and career progression. Understand the interview format typical time allocation for sessions and strategies for demonstrating thought process and communication.