Netflix
Senior
GraphQL platform authority on Netflix's Consumer Edge API layer
Interview prep for Netflix's Member API team, which owns the Consumer Edge GraphQL service powering every discovery screen members see. This is a senior, platform-facing role: expect deep questioning on GraphQL schema design, federation, and API lifecycle governance at production scale, not general feature-building.
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What this interview tests
- GraphQL schema design and federation at production scale
- API lifecycle governance: design through deprecation, breaking-change management
- Client-driven vs. server-driven API paradigm trade-offs
- Reasoning about blast radius and schema ownership in large distributed systems
- Technical writing and holding ground with partner teams on platform principles
- Mentoring engineers on GraphQL/API design patterns
Common question themes
Design a federated GraphQL schema for a discovery-related domain and discuss governance
How do you decide between client-driven and server-driven API design for a given feature
Tell me about a breaking API change you managed and how you avoided/handled fallout
How would you evaluate blast radius before deprecating a widely-used field
Describe a time you disagreed with a partner team's API design and how you resolved it
How would you fold AI-assisted API contributions into existing governance/tooling
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