Databricks Software Engineer interview experience

After an initial recruiter-style step, I ended up with back-to-back technical rounds where I had to walk through how I’d solve a problem, handle follow-ups, and then implement the solution. The experience was very much about communication while coding, not just getting to the right answer.

One of the problems I dealt with involved working with a deque, where the goal was to surface the top K sorted elements by using the data structure appropriately—very much a standard algorithmic setup. In another round, I was given an algorithm question where I had to explain my reasoning first, then write