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Got the offer

Member of Technical Staff 3 at Nutanix

Difficulty
Process took
2-3 Weeks
Rounds
5
Format
Remote
Applied via
Company Website

How it went

  • The focus was well balanced between DSA, system design, and clean coding principles, tt was definitely great learning experience, especially the machine coding and design rounds, which were very practical and aligned with real-world challenges

What they would tell you

  • The focus was well balanced between DSA, system design, and clean coding principles, tt was definitely great learning experience, especially the machine coding and design rounds, which were very practical and aligned with real-world challenges

How to prepare

  • If you’re preparing for Nutanix, I’d recommend brushing up on, Core DSA concepts (Trees, Graphs, Stacks)

Their background

Participated in Nutanix’s MTS3 hiring drive and wanted to share my experience for anyone preparing for similar roles Current Compensation: 36 YOE: 5 year 4 months Nutanix Offer: 54 LPA

Round by round

  1. 1

    Coding Round 160 min

    First round started with a problem based on trees It mainly tested my understanding of tree traversal and BFS/DFS logic. After solving it, there was a follow-up question about optimizing and handling edge cases

  2. 2

    Coding round 260 min

    The next round, Greedy + Stack problem The interviewer asked about time complexity and how the solution scales for large inputs. A follow-up discussion revolved around whether different data structures could help optimize it further

  3. 3

    Machine Coding Round60 min

    This was a Distributed Job Scheduler problem. The focus here was on

    • Writing modular and clean code
    • Ensuring thread safety in a multi-threaded environment
    • Demonstrating good object-oriented design principles
  4. 4

    HLD60 min

    Design a 1 to 1 chat feature like WhatsApp

  5. 5

    Hiring Manager Round60 min

    It was managerial conversation, we discussed

    • My previous projects and key learnings
    • My problem-solving approach and how I handle challenges
    • The team structure, expectations, and compensation discussion

What came up

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