I highly discourage folks from interviewing at Search and Recommendations team at Netflix- horrible indian interviewer. Recently gave screening round with Netflix Search and Recommendations team- had a terrible experience with this interviewer. It was 1 hr interview where recruiter clearly allocated timing for each section- there were 3 main section: experience/background, ML understanding/technical and finally coding part. Coding part was assigned 3mins. Now firstly interviewer joined 7mins late to the meeting and she did not even acknowledged that they joined late. After background and ML/DL technical questions which went really well imo. Given my background was so relevant they kept asking ML questions which I was answering but she didn't keep a check on timing and we ended up with just 15mins. She then jumps to dsa/coding part. And here comes actual horrible part- they gave a dynamic programming problem. I asked clarification question to get corner cases and explain brute force as well as DP solution. This horrible interviewer asked me explain and implement Brute force first and then dynamic programming solution in like 15mins remaining. I was implementing brute force and they said time is up. WTF was that- how can u expect to code brute force and DP solution with explanation and testable code in 15mins?? How unreasonable it is and given interviewer was 7mins late into the call, they didn't even acknowledge that and considered that nor gave those mins. I bet they can't even code the most basic solution of that problem. I have been at Meta and Google before this, I've never seen such things where candidate is asked to solve DP in 15mins with explanation and runnable code. I'm not sure if recruiter will even ask for feedback from candidates at Netflix. Folks who work at Netflix- can u share if I can flag this bad experience to the recruiter or team? Horrible indian interviewer at Netflix XYZ team. Interviewer is from a tier-3/tier-4 no-name uni in US, no core ML specialization by education, she somehow got into Netflix maybe DEI hire. Netflix might pay more, but it seems like a horrible place to work because of such ppl. To this interviewer-->Remember one day you will be on the other side of the table and I hope you experience such shitty interviewer. And I bet you better not be in a position where I interview you in future, you know what'll happen. ---------------------- EDIT1: I didn't mean to target any race here. my intention was just to share my experience with this horrible interviewer who knows nothing about Jax/Tensorflow basics as she didn't understand or gave blank face when I mentioned common ops. Surprised that Netflix does DEI hire specially women in men-heavy teams like Search. The goal here is to spread awareness to folks who will be interviewing with same team or same individual if their luck is bad. DM for team details and interviewer name. ----------------------- TC: 540K 7yoe at {FAAG} ----------------------- #tech #netflix #horrible #indian #interviewer #search
Name and shame.
Absolutely... We need big tech to understand to be done with there dei pieces of shits
Looking at your resume gave her an inferiority complex and you bossing the questions she asked added more fire. So she tried to boss around you in the interview by asking a dp in the last few mins and set you up for failure. Quite a lot of Immature/Insecure brown interviewers out there! Name and shame. I knew the director(white) for the company I interviewed last year (he was my skip previously and knew about me and my work). One such interview left a bad taste like this and guess who (brown from a no name college). I reached out to him directly bypassing the recruiter. He held a meeting along with his manager to walk through my system design solution and got schooled royally. Dude was left quivering with his manager real unhappy (having to go through this) and asked to take a course in how to conduct interviews reflecting company values and removed from panel with a warning 😂 I ended up joining a different team in that company with a 2 member re-interview for that round! Recruiter apologized for such behavior after offer, which was unacceptable for the company. I have also had great brown interviewers who really aren’t insecure like many. Till date, I’m unsure why do people get insecure when someone went to a better school than them or has a higher experience than them or has FAANG in their resume or educated something new during an interview🎯 Unless you teach them a lesson this’ll continue as they don’t realize it’s a mistake.
Yes, exactly! I'm grateful I got opportunity to go to a uni which is top ML/DL school in US. And I work at a decent company, she didn't have any strong ML work experience from her LinkedIn profile nor any publications, god knows how they reached Netflix, as you said DEI hire as Netflix is very male heavy originally.
Pass the feedback to recruiter for sure.
Here’s the thing. You could’ve said all of those things without pointing to the race. I understand you had a bad experience, and that sucks, but never generalize. It only leads to more unhappiness and anger towards other perfectly normal Indians.
Wrong, this ain’t racist. It’s important to expose anyone who does this irrespective of the race. No reasonable human would hate entire brown community for such an ass among them.
Like I said, call it out without pointing to the race of the person.
Exactly!
Looking at OP’s response to replies - I don’t think so it’s interviewers mistake. Also women can be talented and hard working plus deserving these roles than male counterpart and maybe that’s the reasons she’s there at Netflix before jumping to DEI
Name of the interviewer or didn’t happen.
DM me for name.
How can we DM you if you are private. I want to know the name so we avoid this person if they ever were the interviewer
Interesting reminder that there are some people who will never respect you if you didn’t go to a tIeR OnE uNiVersiTY and work at FAaNg. Sorry you bombed your interview OP. Maybe if you get some better experience you will make it next time!
lol, he clearly explained the situation. OP definitely has better experience than the interviewer. I think OP should report this person to HR.
Yeah gj taking only the OPs word and assume some disgruntled, angry dude on blind is telling the absolute truth lol
Do *not* name the interviewer! Give feedback to the recruiter, that’s their job.
This
Definitely feedback to the recruiter. Ask for a reinterview. You are definitely entitled.
Name and Shame.
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1. Probably a dei hire 2. Name and shame 3. TC or GTFO
current TC: 540K, in ML/GenAI/NLP space.
Nice !! I'm in the same space with a lower TC ... Will hit you up in dms to know where you work ... 540k cash eqv or there's paper money ? Also yoe ?