Databricks Interview Questions and Guide
Strong algorithms and concurrency fundamentals; design questions often involve large-scale data processing.
The Databricks interview loop
- Recruiter screen
- Technical screens
- Onsite: algorithms, concurrency, system design, hiring manager
Databricks interview questions
- Design Top-K Trending Videos
- Design a Distributed Cache
- Design a Distributed Job Scheduler
- Design a Chat LLM Serving Platform
- Design a CI/CD System
- Design a Distributed File System
- Design a Remote Devbox
- Design a Distributed Key-Value Store
- Design a Distributed Message Queue
- Design an Enterprise Data Integration Platform
- Design a Distributed Lock Service
- Design ChatGPT Playground
- Design a Batch Inference System
- Design ML Model Distribution
- In-Memory Database (Multi-Part)
- Shortest Subarray With Sum at Least K
- Design Hit Counter
- Shortest Path in a Grid with Obstacles Elimination
- Minimum Knight Moves
- Find Median from Data Stream
- Single-Threaded CPU Scheduling
- Split Array Largest Sum
- Step-By-Step Directions From a Binary Tree Node to Another
- Course Schedule (Ordering)
- Find the Length of the Longest Common Prefix
- Binomial Coefficient nCr mod 10⁹+7
- Reservoir Sampling
- Design a Task Scheduler
- Walk me through your most impactful project
- Tell me about a problem you noticed that nobody else was addressing
- Tell me about delivering a project across multiple teams
- Tell me about a time you convinced others to adopt your idea
- Tell me about a difficult technical trade-off you made
- Tell me about a time you had to learn something new quickly
- Tell me about a time you dove deep to find the root cause
- Tell me about a time you proposed a bold vision
- Why do you want to work on AI?
- Tell me about solving a problem from first principles
- Debug a Failing Test Suite with AI
- Analyze Logs with a Script and AI