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An Open-Book Coding Screen That Still Ended in Rejection

NetflixSoftware Engineer · Technical Screen · Jul 2026

I interviewed for the Member team — it was basically an open-book style interview, similar to a couple of other phone screen reports I'd seen. Problem Solving: Netflix homepage content dedup — for each row, the first n titles need to be deduplicated globally; after position n+1, you only need to make sure there's no duplicate within that row itself. Follow-ups: 1. what if n is different for each…

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