Databricks interview notes, page 4 of 22

“I went with a product launch story and structured it as situation, action, result.” The rest of the author's notes on Product Manager interview at Databricks, Onsite - Behavioral / Leadership round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I started with functional requirements which felt right but I spent too long on the basics like open/read/write and didn't get to the interesting stuff fast enough.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Databricks, Onsite - System Design / Architecture round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This took longer than I expected.” The rest of the author's notes on Machine Learning Engineer interview at Databricks, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I had a decent answer for the first part but stumbled a bit on the tradeoffs portion.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Databricks, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Started with the LRU cache part fine, that's just a hashmap plus doubly linked list.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Databricks, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Classic BFS setup.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Databricks, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I got the basic encode working pretty fast but decode is where things got messy.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Databricks, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I got the basic implementation working fine, class with a 2D board, checking rows and columns and diagonals after each move.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Databricks, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“My first instinct was to BFS from every open cell individually and that would've been a disaster at 300x300.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Databricks, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Prepped this one pretty well so it felt fine.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Databricks, Onsite - Behavioral / Leadership round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.