Netflix CEO explains why he pays technologists huge salaries
I interviewed at Netflix several years ago.  It was a fairly standard SV interview.  That is - whiteboard questions on basic data structures and algorithms (I&#x27;m 40 and I still absolutely suck at those).<p>Failed of course :)  But they put me up in a really nice hotel, so there&#x27;s that.  In the years since, I&#x27;ve definitely lost all interest in working in SV (the fact that I&#x27;ve failed every single interview I&#x27;ve had with SV companies admittedly might have something to do with it).  Ah well, at my age it&#x27;s time to accept that the window has closed on some things :)<p>I&#x27;ll give Netflix this - I left the interview knowing I&#x27;d failed.  I was told this, to my face, before being shown the door (The interviewer wasn&#x27;t mean about it). I&#x27;ll take that over being told &quot;We&#x27;ll let you know&quot; and waiting weeks before getting a generic rejection email from HR (or even better, being ghosted).