Databricks·Software Engineer

Databricks Software Engineer interview experience

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My process started with a design-focused screen centered on a bookstore scenario.

I walked through how a system would handle lots of requests where each user sets a target price that stays valid for a time window like 24 hours, and the system queries a list of bookstores for updated prices. If the latest price was at or below the target, the system would go ahead and purchase.

Onsite, my coding portion leaned heavily into string and partitioning logic. I was given two strings and had to produce index-based results—one string used as a reference to map occurrences into pairs of positions in the other. There was also a follow-up where I had to remove a character and return

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