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.
Lyft Business & Services Familiarity
Familiarity with Lyft's business model, core products and services (ridesharing platform, mobility offerings, pricing strategy), partnerships, and market positioning as part of understanding the company's business and culture.
Motivation for Airbnb and Role Understanding
Candidate's motivation for joining Airbnb and their understanding of the role, including alignment with Airbnb's culture, values, and product domain, to assess fit during the interview process.
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.
Questions to Ask the Interviewer
Preparing thoughtful questions to evaluate the role and the team. Candidates should plan questions about team size and structure, current priorities and projects, key challenges and known risks, reporting lines and success metrics, expectations for the first six to twelve months, collaboration cadence, and how decisions are made. Well chosen questions demonstrate curiosity, help the candidate assess fit, and show genuine interest in the work and stakeholders they would partner with.