Member Of Technical Staff applicants have rated the interview process at Nutanix with 3.3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 86% positive. To compare, the company-average is 82.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Member Of Technical Staff roles take an average of 25 days to get hired, when considering 100 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Nutanix overall takes an average of 30 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Nutanix as a Member Of Technical Staff according to 100 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 25%
One on one interview: 24%
Presentation: 18%
Drug test: 10%
Group panel interview: 6%
Personality test: 5%
Skills test: 4%
Background check: 4%
IQ intelligence test: 2%
Other: 1%
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I applied through college or university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Nutanix (San Jose, CA) in Oct 2015
Interview
Interview process was very streamlined and fast. Dropped my resume at the career fair. Got a call for phone screening within a week. After this I was called for onsite round of interviews to San Jose. In onsite there were 5-6 rounds(45 mins approx) with members from different teams. All the rounds were a two way interaction and mostly discussion on how to reach an optimal/efficient solution. The interviewers were knowledgable and helped by giving hints as to how to approach the problem.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
phone screen -
1. basic string question (make sure to handle all corner cases and null pointer checks if writing in 'C')
2. Basic concepts of Distributed systems and discussion on how to build a fault tolerant distributed metastore
Onsite:
1. Distributed systems, Linux Kernel programming concepts, implementing hashtables and LRU caches, C specific questions like writing a strcompare etc.
Make sure you know in-depth about the projects listed in your resume, strong C/C++ programming skills a big plus, good understanding of Operating system concepts like process/threads/paging/synchronizations, Distributed system concepts like CAP theorem, fault tolerance, failure detectors, leader elections and be able to apply these concepts in designing a system.
In total I had 4 interview rounds, which are described as follows.
Round 1: Screening- Two coding questions, one easy and another medium to hard level coding question, both of which I solved. Basic questions on Python and Kubernetes.
Round 2: Technical (Face-to-face)-2 to 3 Coding questions of medium level. Scenario based questions according to profile. It went on for another hour.
Round 3: Technical(Face-to-Face)- Real life based problems asked including some questions on Algorithms.
Round 4: Behavioral(Face-to-Face) It went on for 2 hrs. Questions mostly on previously done work and revolve around how much understanding and experience you had in past.
All the interviewers were friendly and welcoming. I instantly loved the culture when I walked into their office. It was my dream company and I got selected :)
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Focus on problem solving, coding questions and real life based scenarios.
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Nutanix in May 2025
Interview
The whole process consists of 3 stages: a recruiter pre-screen, followed by an initial technical interview, and that goes well, you will proceed to a final round with 3 interviews in one day (two 45-minute technical interviews, one 30-minute hiring manager interview).
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
- Tell me about yourself
- Why are you interested in this role？
- What’s the latest project you’ve worked on, what was the impact of a feature you contributed, and what would you do differently if you had more time?