Databricks·Software Engineer

Databricks Software Engineer interview experience

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IndiaPosted Nov 2023 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My interview started with a prompt HR contact and then moved into a phone screen with a coding question.

I was asked to implement a Snapshot Set iterator with operations like add, remove, contains, and iter—specifically an iterator that would see a snapshot of the set at creation time, so changes after iterator creation wouldn’t show up.

As I built it out, the discussion got deeper and more time-consuming than I expected. I talked through two approaches—one based on a global log and one based on per-key versioned logs—comparing the initialization work and how each could support the iterator’s snapshot behavior. The interviewer pushed for optimization and then asked how I’d handle freezing the

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