Databricks·Software Engineer

Databricks Software Engineer interview experience

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Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I got a coding question that asked me to implement a snapshot set iterator, with the added detail that return order didn’t matter.

We talked through the data structures first, including a list of logs and a dictionary, and then the interviewer pushed me toward an alternative approach where each key would maintain its own logs rather than sharing one list. I followed that direction, but later felt like it didn’t actually buy any improvement in time or space.

As I coded, I was pretty nervous and introduced a few small bugs. I corrected most of them, but the final output was still wrong, and it took me a while to realize the iterator interface wasn’t complete. The key gap was that I hadn’t implemented the crucial iteration

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