Netapp

Role: Software Engineer

College: Not Specified

Interview Date: June 2023

Interview Type: Off-Campus

Result: Rejected

Difficulty: Hard

Rounds: 4 rounds

Topics Asked: Data Structures, Algorithms, System Design, Behavioral

Experience:

This candidate interviewed for a Software Engineer position in June 2023. The process involved four rounds.

Round 1 (Coding Assessment): This round was a HackerRank assessment with two coding questions. One was a medium-difficulty array manipulation problem, and the other was a hard graph traversal problem (a Dijkstra variant).

Round 2 (Technical Interview 1): This round focused on data structures like linked lists and trees, and algorithms, particularly sorting, with questions about time and space complexity. A specific coding problem asked was to merge two sorted linked lists.

Round 3 (Technical Interview 2): This round was dedicated to system design, where the candidate was asked to design a distributed cache. There were also follow-up questions regarding consistency models.

Round 4 (Hiring Manager): The final round was with a hiring manager and involved behavioral questions, discussions on team fit, past projects, and the candidate's motivation for joining NetApp.

Overall, the candidate found the difficulty to be Hard and was ultimately rejected.