Databricks Software Engineer interview experience

In that call I solved a LeetCode hard problem, and once I passed, I ended up doing four more interviews to assess my level.

Those follow-up rounds felt very “engineering-real” rather than just practice questions. One algorithm round used a medium/hard LeetCode-style problem. A system design round focused on low-level design with pseudo-code, plus database-style topics like WAL, concurrency, hashing, log compression, and similar themes. Then there was a coding round where I implemented a solution based on provided interfaces and starter structure; the emphasis was less on trickiness and more