A Netflix mock interview on Devana is a voice interview with an AI interviewer on one of 47 Netflix-style questions from Devana's bank: 16 coding, 10 system design, 13 technical deep dives and 8 behavioral. Your code runs, the interviewer asks follow-ups, and you get a score out of 100. Company question sets are on the Free plan. Devana is not affiliated with Netflix, and these are not leaked or confirmed Netflix questions.
What the Netflix software engineer interview looks like
Netflix does not publish its interview process. Candidates commonly describe a recruiter call, a conversation with the hiring manager, a technical screen, then a set of interviews with the team. The format adapts to the team more than at most large companies, and the interviews are widely described as assuming you have owned systems in production. Treat these details as reported.
What Netflix does publish is its culture memo, which says it hires "unusually responsible people who thrive on this openness and freedom." Its ideas map onto the behavioral questions: an informed captain who owns a decision end to end, farming for dissent before deciding, disagreeing then committing, context not control, and candid feedback. The memo also describes the keeper test managers apply: would they fight to keep you?
The full guide, with the sources, is the Netflix software engineer interview process.
What Devana practices for Netflix
Devana's Netflix set has 47 questions, 27 of them rated hard. The topics that come up most are Scalability, Systems Design, Caching and APIs. They are Devana's own questions, written to reflect what Netflix and its candidates have said publicly about its interviews. Start any of these as a mock interview:
| Round type | Questions | Examples (start a mock interview) |
|---|---|---|
| Coding | 16 | |
| System design | 10 | |
| Technical deep dives | 13 | |
| Behavioral | 8 |
Counted from Devana's question bank. Technical deep dives run as a system design round. Devana is not affiliated with Netflix.
How to practice for Netflix
- Lead with decisions you owned. The behavioral set asks about a significant decision you made without approval, the most candid feedback you have given, and disagreeing then committing. Say what you decided and why, not what the team decided.
- Design for failure first. The technical deep dives are about how one slow service takes down four others, choosing timeout values and designing a genuinely useful fallback. Netflix built and open-sourced Chaos Monkey, so expect failure to be an early follow-up, not the last.
- Know the streaming basics. Coding questions include adaptive bitrate selection and resuming playback across devices; the designs include video playback end to end and a CDN embedded in ISP networks, which Netflix runs itself as Open Connect.
- Write your stories against the memo. One real story for each idea in it covers most of what a Netflix behavioral round asks. Keep each about what you personally did.
How to set up a Netflix mock interview
- Open the Netflix set. The "Start a free Netflix mock interview" button opens Devana's question bank filtered to Netflix.
- Choose the round. Filter by type: coding, system design, technical deep dive or behavioral. A technical deep dive runs as a system design round, with a whiteboard.
- Choose the level. Filter by difficulty: easy, medium or hard. 27 of the 47 Netflix questions are rated hard. You can also filter by topic.
- Start it. Press "Practice this question" and the voice interview starts on that question. Signed out, you are asked to sign in first; the Free plan needs no card.
- Role and style. A question from a company set uses your saved interviewer style and coding language from Settings. To choose your role, such as frontend or backend, and run a full two-problem round, start a standard interview from Practice instead; that setup cannot be pointed at one company.
How a Netflix mock interview runs on Devana
Pick a question from the Netflix set and you talk it through with Josh, Devana's AI interviewer, for up to 30 minutes on a paid plan (45 for a design question) or 20 on the Free plan. In a coding question your code runs in Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Java or C++; a design question has a whiteboard the interviewer reads; a behavioral question gets follow-ups about what you personally did. Each session ends with a score out of 100 on that round's rubric and a list of what raised and lowered it. For a full-length round with two problems, start a standard mock interview from Practice instead: up to 60 minutes on a paid plan, though you cannot choose the company. The mock interviews by round page shows each round type.
Guides to study first
- Caching, for read-heavy streaming designs
- Load balancing and stateless services, for traffic across regions and failover
- Sharding and replication, for designs at global scale
- Arrays and hashing, for playback-state lookups
- Ownership, for decisions you owned
- Conflict and disagreement, for disagreeing then committing
Devana is not affiliated with, sponsored by or endorsed by Netflix. The questions are Devana's own and are not leaked or confirmed Netflix interview questions.
Frequently asked questions
Are Devana's Netflix questions real Netflix interview questions?
No. Devana's 47 Netflix questions are its own, written to reflect what Netflix and its candidates have said publicly about its interviews. They are not leaked or confirmed Netflix questions, and Devana is not affiliated with Netflix.
Can I do a Netflix mock interview for free?
Yes. Company question sets are on Devana's Free plan, which includes 3 mock interviews a month of up to 20 minutes each, on any of the 47 Netflix questions. On the Sprint Pass or Pro, a single question runs up to 30 minutes, or 45 for a system design question.
What do Netflix behavioral interviews focus on?
The ideas in Netflix's culture memo, which describes the people it hires. Expect questions about a decision you owned end to end, how you sought out disagreement before deciding, backing a decision you argued against, and candid feedback you gave or received. Netflix does not publish its loop, so the format is as candidates report it.