Databricks·Software Engineer

Databricks Software Engineer interview experience

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I was asked to design a system for processing book purchase requests, and the requirements were surprisingly concrete.

Users would submit a target price along with a validity window like 24 hours, and the system would query a list of bookstores for current pricing. If the updated price matched the user’s target or was lower, the system needed to place the purchase.

The hardest part for me was juggling scale while staying accurate about the data model: there could be a large volume of buyer requests, a significant number of books identified by title, and only a limited set of bookstores to check. I spent most of my time thinking through how to structure the flow so that price matching stayed consistent even

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