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Nutanix interviews FAQs
Senior Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Nutanix with 2.6 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 20% positive. To compare, the company-average is 82.6% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Senior Software Engineer roles take an average of 11 days to get hired, when considering 5 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Nutanix overall takes an average of 30 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Nutanix as a Senior Software Engineer according to 5 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 50%
Skills test: 20%
One on one interview: 20%
Group panel interview: 10%
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The process took 5 days. I interviewed at Nutanix in Jan 2020
Interview
I had received a call from the recruiter regarding Software Engineering role and I have scheduled an interview within week as recruiter enforced to schedule asap which is not ideal case for the big soze company like this, and during the video call interview, the interviewer didn’t joined on time and had contacted recruiter, then interviewer joined 10 min late.
That’s all still fine, but the pathetic experience during the interview, who seemed like only wanted to reject OR came up with some mentally prepared rejection with more non-technical and more mathemetical questions which is impossible to finished fully within 30 mins with complete solution.
I would never recommend to interview at this company who really disrespect the interview process and the person who is giving the interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Write whole program to multiply 2 String Array with Integer Input and String can’t fit in anywhere except String....
I recently had an interview experience with Nutanix for Senior Software engineer. I applied on their portal and got the call after couple of days from the recruiter. First round was based on programming. The interviewer was very friendly, I was asked to code on a very customized question. It is LC Medium level. He asked me about time complexity and optimize it. I got selected to the next round. I was asked an LLD question in this round. I was not selected to further rounds.
There were several interviews with senior members of departments and they all went really well. These were standard "what do you see yourself doing in N years" and explanations of what they were working on, with a good admission of weaknesses, which is why they were hiring!
The problem came in the technical interviews. The dual panel were team members on separate teams and one of them was not strong in the questions or technical requirements, deep dive into Linux SRE/devops. Questions involving strace, debugging file systems, etc, went sideways as the weaker panelist was looking for exact answers on a rubric and didn't have the knowledge to assess and answer follow up and clarification questions. The interview devolved into lack of my knowledge of their internal troubleshooting procedures.
It's a shame because several people prior we had amazing conversations about Linux kernel internals, radio to user land conversations, systems design, and so on.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
If a filesystem stops responding, how do you go about troubleshooting this.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Nutanix (San Jose, CA) in Sep 2024
Interview
3 interviews onsite.
1st interview - logic thinking and programmatic skills
2nd interview - Hardware Software integration. Discussion on previous projects.
3rd interview - Storage IO in general. NVMe and storage stack in Kernel
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a list of N servers and an array which tells how many requests each can handle.
Given a Target T requests, returns a group of minimum number of servers needed to satisfy the request.
The sum of requests of those servers should exactly match the Target.
If there are multiple such groups, return one such group.
E.g Target = 8 Array = { 1, 9, 2, 3, 5, 6} , Answer = {5, 3}. Can also be {2,6}.