Build internal employee-facing products and GenAI/LLM features on Netflix's N-Tech engineering team

Design and ship end-to-end internal tools and integrations that improve employee productivity at Netflix, with a real GenAI/LLM component woven into the applications. This is a senior IC role owning significant projects from problem definition through production, with growing scope to mentor and shape team-level technical direction.

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What this interview tests

End-to-end ownership of internal employee-facing products
GenAI/LLM feature design, prototyping, and productionization
API and integration design with third-party and internal services
System simplification: deprecating/refactoring low-value solutions
Cross-functional collaboration with PMs, designers, and stakeholders
Mentoring and raising engineering bar within a team

Common question themes

Walk through owning an ambiguous internal-tooling project end-to-end

Design and productionize a GenAI/LLM feature in an employee-facing app

Tradeoffs between building new vs. integrating third-party services

A time you simplified or decommissioned a complex/low-value system

Explaining a technical tradeoff to a non-technical stakeholder

Mentoring a peer engineer or shaping team technical direction

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