Nutanix Interview Experience | MTS 1 | 1.5 YoE
Summary
Recently interviewed for Nutanix's MTS-1 role after a referral. The process included multiple rounds of technical and system design interviews, ultimately resulting in a successful offer.
Full Experience
As a 2024 passout with 1.5 years of experience at a US Core Bank, I applied for Nutanix's MTS-1 role via referral. The interview process began with a recruiter reaching out after a few weeks. Round 1 involved solving two graph-related LeetCode problems: Alien Dictionary and Word Ladder II. The interviewer was friendly, and I was invited to the next round the following day. Round 2 was a problem-solving and debugging round where I had to clone an open-source database driver codebase and explain specific features like connection logic and indexing. Round 3 was an HLD round where I designed a chat application, discussing tradeoffs with the interviewer. Round 4 focused on technical questions around Kafka and messaging systems, along with a discussion about my role and open-source experience. I received a final offer after a few days.
Interview Questions (2)
Alien Dictionary
Given a string of words, determine the order of characters based on the given words. The input is a sequence of words where each word is a sequence of characters, and the order is determined by the first differing character between consecutive words.
Word Ladder II
Find the shortest transformation sequence from a start word to an end word, using a given set of words. Each transformation must change exactly one character at a time, and each intermediate word must exist in the given word list.