RejectedTechnical Screen

Phone Screen on a Key-Value Store with TTL, Rejected

NetflixSoftware Engineer · Senior+ · Technical Screen · Oct 2026

I recently interviewed for an IC5 role on the Netflix Ads team. The phone screen was the classic Key-Value Store with TTL. Personally I felt it went okay. I implemented the usual set of methods, and for TTL expiration I used a min heap keyed on timestamp. I explained my design thinking and the tradeoffs as I went, wrote test cases at the end, and the code ran correctly. I still got rejected. The…

Shared by a candidate · reported Oct 2026. Interview formats change; use it as a guide, not a script.