Databricks·Software Engineer

Databricks Software Engineer interview experience

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United StatesPosted Sep 2024 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After a recruiter outreach, I ended up doing a CodeSignal online assignment with four coding questions to finish under a tight clock.

I had about a week to complete it, but the actual time limit for the timed test portion was around 70 minutes (roughly 1 hour 10 minutes). The mix felt like typical LeetCode-style problems: a couple were easy, one was medium, and one was hard. Even when the questions were conceptually “good,” the time pressure made it hard to stay calm—especially with all four questions to complete.

I remember getting through some of the early ones but not finishing everything to a point I felt confident about. On a couple prompts, I could get part of the solution working, yet I still struggled to complete

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