Nutanix General Intern Interview Questions
& Process
Real candidates share what happened, how many rounds they had,
and how the experience turned out.
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Candidate interview experiences
First-hand accounts from people who interviewed at Nutanix.
Nutanix
Intern
Intern Difficult Positive experience Accept offer 5 rounds
Interview process
Take home Technical screen Technical screen Onsite Recruiter call
Interview formats
Coding Technical System Design Behavioral
It was a 5-round process. The online assessment was DSA-focused with 3 questions and 90 minutes. Then there was a debug round where I had to fix a bugged LRU cache in 30 minutes using pen and paper. Interview 1 was DSA-focused with one hard problem, requiring full explanation of intuition, dry run, pseudocode, and complexity analysis, all done on pen and paper. Interview 2 was a system design round where I had to build a tracking app architecture from scratch, covering how it works, the database schema, auth, scaling, and networking protocols, plus some CS fundamentals and resume questions, also on pen and paper. The hiring manager round was friendly, with basic OS questions and personal questions.
Confirmed questions1 question
- Be well-prepared in DSA and able to solve completely unknown LeetCode hard problems within time limits, such as the binary tree cameras problem.
Nutanix
Intern
Intern Average Negative experience No offer 2 rounds
Interview process
Recruiter call Technical screen
Interview formats
Behavioral Technical
The recruiter screen ran longer than scheduled and seemed to indicate internal company issues. I was told I would get an update in a few days, but it actually took nearly two weeks. The next interviewer was a bit late, showing up 5 minutes after the start time. I mentioned that a specific skill wasn't my strongest, and the interviewer spent about 10 minutes discussing it. It was pretty clear I wouldn't be proceeding, and the interviewer's attitude felt a bit passive-aggressive.
Confirmed questions1 question
- Can you tell me what you know about Nutanix?
Nutanix
Intern
Intern Difficult Negative experience No offer 3 rounds
Interview process
Take home Group Technical screen
Interview formats
Technical Group
First, there was an online test with 50 questions to do in 60 minutes, all about OS, CN, and cloud. Then, a group discussion (GD) round, which was pretty easy. Finally, a technical interview focused completely on infrastructure, cloud, and networking.
Confirmed questions8 questions
- Could you explain what packets are?
- Can you describe technically what happens in data centers?
- What are the different types of firewalls?
Nutanix General Intern Interview Questions
Quoted word for word from Nutanix interview reports.
“What is the minimum width for a railway platform to fit all trains?”
Read reports →“When the Linux kernel boots up, what's the very first process that gets started?”
Read reports →“Given queries for x, find the nearest node to the root with a value greater than x.”
Read reports →“How would you convert a sorted array into a complete binary search tree?”
Read reports →“Can you find all sets of numbers in an integer array that add up to a specific target?”
Read report →“Given the code to divide a circular linked list into two, debug it.”
Read report →“How would you implement a vector using a linked list?”
Read report →“How would you find the median from a stream of numbers as they arrive?”
Read report →“What's the code to figure out the power of x that equals y, especially focusing on tricky situations?”
Read report →Formats, difficulty and experience
Across all 66 Nutanix interview reports.