process Netflix offer

[rich mountain]

Congrats!

[warped wigeon]

sheeesh

[trail wind]

TC?

[silent current]

congrats

[hearty star]

205k base 10k sign on

[silent current]

no stock?

def negotiate

[hearty star]

Netflix doesn't pay stock. You can opt-in to an option plan tho

[silent current]

oh yeah i forgot ur right

ur right at the correct levels.fyi range so thats great, im assuming ur going to work out the los gatos office?

[hearty star]

Yeah most likely. Their teams are 95% Los Gatos 5% LA

[candid tundra]

yooo congrats man!

[silent current]

what was the process like? how stressful was it?

how hard did you LC and prepare for it?

[hearty star]

I didn't find it that stressful. I got a CodeSignal OA, then was for a first round tech, then was invited back for 1 sys design, 1 tech, and 1 behavioral with a hiring manager all back to back. The LC wasn't that hard each interview only had 1 question. The first interview was LC med but it's such a popular LC question anyone should get it. The other was another med tree question but it was super chill.

In total since June I maybe did like 100 LC questions. I stopped practicing LC in September cuz of school and I was already interviewing

[silent current]

wow absolutely legendary, congrats on the big win fam

[arctic cipher]

how long after applying did you get the OA? trying to understand if i should consider myself rejected lol

[hearty star]

Applied August 24th and got the OA on Sep 1

[zenith vigil]

how was the sys design q? haven’t really done something like that before but I’ve heard that it’s not an actual system design question?

[hearty star]

It wasn't that bad. It's phrased like a sys design q mine was how I would design the like/disklike feature for netflix. We focused a lot on the API endpoints and the models for the database. We didn't do anything crazy like talk about gateways or load balancers or any of that stuff. Pretty high level. Most detailed thing we discussed was caching

I think they care more about how you break down the problem. They also want to see that you think about the bigger picture. Your solution should address the use cases of the product. It should do that well but there's a trade off between feature set and complexity. If I was doing this again I would keep it simpler. Really just let the interviewer guide you to what he's interesting in hearing

[uneven thistle]

Thank you!

[uneven thistle]

Mind sharing codesignal score (or just range)?

[hearty star]

845

[rich mountain]

Mind giving me an offer?

[uneven thistle]

[zenith vigil]

thanks! I feel much better about this, did you prepare in any way for it? or kind of just use knowledge from past experiences

[hearty star]

I watched this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtMvNh0WFVM&list=LL&index=5 I don't really know how else to study for it lol. I found that it was just being logical and talkative

[zenith vigil]

gotcha gotcha, lowkey my first round felt similar with being logical and talkative 😅

[hearty star]

Yeah I'm sure you'll do well! It's OOD but with plain text asides from code. Good luck!!

[rich mountain]

Was it a standard CodeSignal or a custom one?

[hearty star]

standard

[lime tartan]

would you have the option of doing LA?

[hearty star]

I think so. They're doing team placement later and I think you can request a LA team. But only 5% of their SWEs are in LA so it's rare