Mentors who have worked at Netflix
Book a session with engineers from Netflix to understand a senior-only engineering culture, its compensation model, and whether it is the environment you would do your best work in.
Before you book a Netflix mentor
How do I choose the right Netflix mentor?
Netflix hires almost exclusively at a senior level and expects people to operate with very little process around them. That suits some engineers enormously and makes others miserable, and it is genuinely hard to predict which you are from the outside. A frank conversation with someone who worked there is the cheapest way to find out.
What should I bring to a Netflix mentor session?
The compensation model — high cash, with choice over equity — changes how you should compare an offer against a company paying in refreshers. Work the actual numbers through with someone who has held both kinds of offer rather than comparing headline figures.
For interviews, expect depth over breadth: fewer puzzle-style questions, far more probing of systems you have genuinely built and decisions you personally owned.
What people bring to these sessions
- Whether a high-autonomy, low-process culture fits how you work
- Comparing a cash-heavy offer against equity-heavy ones
- Interviewing on systems you actually built
- Streaming, media and large-scale distributed systems
- Operating as a senior IC without management scaffolding
2 mentors
- Dmytro Kovalenko — Lead/Staff Software Engineer at netflix. Artificial intelligence, Backend, High load systems
- Kruti Shah — Staff Software Engineer at netflix. JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3