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I had a technical interview with Netflix today: 4 SQL LC medium–hard questions and 2 Python LC medium, all to be completed in 50 minutes. Nothing particularly surprising—CTEs, window functions, LAG, Pandas, dicts, etc. Pretty typical LeetCode-style questions on HackerRank. Funny enough, this was my third technical coding interview this week, and it’s only Tuesday lol. Also, this was actually my second time interviewing for the same role. I got rejected last year, but the recruiter reached back out earlier this year. This time around, I didn’t get every question to pass all the test cases, but the interviewer said it was good enough and asked me to move on, so I was like, alright then, if you say so. I also didn’t solve the last question. I don’t think it was particularly hard, my brain just stopped functioning at that point. The function I wrote was returning nothing, so I was stuck debugging. Six questions in 50 minutes felt pretty rushed, and I don’t usually practice under that kind of time pressure, so lesson learned. During the last 30 seconds, the interviewer just asked me to submit whatever I had while I was still trying to debug. We barely talked during the entire interview. I would have loved to discuss my approach and the trade-offs, but I’m pretty sure that if I did, I probably would’ve only finished 1–2 questions out of the 6. So I stayed super focused and just kept coding, and the interview basically ended like this: Me: (trying to figure out why my function returns nothing even though the logic makes sense to me) Interviewer: “Do you understand the questions?” Me: “Yeah.” Interviewer: “Okay, 30 seconds left. Just submit it.” Me: “Alright, I’ll submit whatever I have.” (click submit) Interviewer: “Thanks for your time, bye!” Super awkward ending. Exactly 44 minutes later... rejection lol No feedback, just the standard rejection email saying they move forward with other candidates. Probably the fastest rejection I’ve ever received. Second time interviewing with Netflix for the same role. Maybe I’m blacklisted now, who knows. Anyway, on to the next one! Cheers, people!