Databricks: interviewer not understanding the solution
Apr 14, 2020
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I heard databricks has pretty high bar and very good engineers and decided to interview there. One of the interview questions involves designing a single node key-value store. I ended up explaining level db and implemented much of it. The feedback was that my solution was too complex and I didn't pass this round (I passed all other rounds though).
I have a strong feeling the interviewer didn't understand the solution or why it's good at all. This happens but if you are asking a pretty popular question are you supposed to at least understand the most widely used solution?
Anyway moving on and felt like I dodged a bullet
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For system design, if you are not answer the way they are thinking then they consider that you are wrong. I do not think there is right or wrong in terms of the system design. It is more of a open ended question....
It is a waste of time interview at databricks... It ended up taking me almost 2 months for entire interview process.
Had similar experience.
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