Failed the online assessment lol, took too long on the first coding problem and ran out of time on the second one so got the rejection email a few days later, no feedback
Questions Asked
1.“What do you know about Databricks that made you apply?”
2.“Design a hotel or vacation booking platform, focus on concurrency and consistency”
Data Science
Summer 2026Accepted
University of Waterloo · Data Science
4th year · 3.7+ GPA · 3 past internships
TechnicalVirtualLive coding
Live coding with 2 interviewers fizz buzz type question then mostly situational based behaviourals like about leadership etc
Data Engineer
San Francisco, CA
Winter 2025Accepted
Georgia Tech · Computer Science
4th year · 3.7+ GPA · 2 past internships
Average Interview
TechnicalMultiple roundsVirtual
They care about code cleanliness not just correctness. Recruiter was quick and direct. Technical phone screen on Coder pad was a medium hard graph problem, I solved it but the code quality discussion ate a lot of time. Manager round was 30 min about my previous internship and what data engineering work I'd actually done
Questions Asked
1.“Design a key-value store. How do you handle persistence and replication?”
Software Engineer
San Francisco, CA
Fall 2024No Offer
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · Computer Science
3rd year · 1 past internship
Hard Interview
TechnicalVirtual
Feedback said technical score wasn't high enough, told me nothing useful. Recruiter call then technical, medium hard on interval scheduling. Got the right approach but the code had edge cases I didn't catch. Manager round never happened
Questions Asked
1.“Tell me about a time you mentored a more junior developer or peer”
2.“Find the intersection node of two singly linked lists”