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100 interview questions from past Databricks candidates

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Total Questions

100

Very Common

16

Categories

14

Reports

780

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Question Categories

Arrays & Hashing (24)
Fundamentals (15)
Databases (13)
Trees & Graphs (9)
Dynamic Programming (9)
Stacks & Queues (8)
Transformers & LLMs (5)
Sorting & Searching (4)
Message Queues (3)
Problem Solving (3)
RAG & Vector DBs (2)
Linked Lists (2)
Prompt Engineering (2)
Caching (1)

Very Common Questions
16

These questions are frequently asked at this company

DoorDash: Search and Discovery

Databases
medium
18 reports
mcq

Coinbase: Transaction History at Scale

Databases
medium
18 reports
mcq

Coinbase: Wallet Balance Tracking

Databases
hard
18 reports
mcq

Database: ACID vs BASE

Databases
hard
18 reports
mcq

Consistency Model for Messaging Systems

Databases
hard
18 reports
mcq

Databricks: Data-Driven Decisions

Problem Solving
medium
20 reports
mcq

What does ROW_NUMBER() OVER (PARTITION BY dept ORDER BY salary DESC) do?

Databases
medium
18 reports
mcq

Databricks: Trade-off Decisions

Problem Solving
hard
20 reports
mcq

Palantir: Ontology-Driven Data Integration

Databases
medium
18 reports
mcq

Databricks: Handling Ambiguity

Problem Solving
medium
20 reports
mcq

Databricks: Data Skipping

Databases
medium
18 reports
mcq

Debug a database deadlock issue

Databases
hard
18 reports
verbal

Twitter Tweet Storage: Database Choice

Databases
medium
18 reports
mcq

Databricks: Data Lakehouse Architecture

Databases
easy
18 reports
mcq

Databricks: Multi-Cloud Data Sharing

Databases
hard
18 reports
mcq

Database: Read Replicas

Databases
medium
18 reports
mcq

Common Questions
28

Regularly reported by candidates

Netflix: Multi-Region Failover

Fundamentals
hard
10 reports
mcq

Palantir: Federated Data Architecture

Fundamentals
hard
10 reports
mcq

Coinbase: Transaction Processing Order

Message Queues
hard
10 reports
mcq

Anthropic: Avoiding Sycophancy

Transformers & LLMs
medium
8 reports
mcq

Retrieval vs Generation Phase

RAG & Vector DBs
easy
8 reports
mcq

OpenAI: Red Teaming Process

Transformers & LLMs
hard
8 reports
mcq

Databricks: Incremental Processing

Fundamentals
medium
10 reports
mcq

Meta: Photo Upload at Scale

Fundamentals
medium
10 reports
mcq

Robinhood: Payment for Order Flow

Fundamentals
medium
10 reports
mcq

BERT vs GPT Architecture Difference

Transformers & LLMs
medium
8 reports
mcq

Meta: Instagram Story Architecture

Fundamentals
medium
10 reports
mcq

Zero-Shot vs Few-Shot Prompting

Prompt Engineering
easy
8 reports
mcq

Salesforce: Multi-Tenant Architecture Basics

Fundamentals
easy
10 reports
mcq

Apple: Memory Constraints

Fundamentals
hard
10 reports
mcq

Event Sourcing

Fundamentals
hard
10 reports
mcq

Databricks: Unity Catalog

Fundamentals
hard
10 reports
mcq

Attention Mechanism Computation

Transformers & LLMs
medium
8 reports
fill blank

Salesforce: Shared Nothing vs Shared Everything

Fundamentals
hard
10 reports
mcq

Coinbase: Portfolio Tracking Dashboard

Fundamentals
medium
10 reports
mcq

Netflix: Event-Driven Architecture

Message Queues
medium
10 reports
mcq

OpenAI: KV Cache Memory Optimization

Transformers & LLMs
hard
8 reports
mcq

Stripe: Idempotency Keys

Fundamentals
medium
10 reports
mcq

Top-p (Nucleus) Sampling

Prompt Engineering
medium
8 reports
mcq

Bloomberg: Pub-Sub Market Data Architecture

Fundamentals
medium
10 reports
mcq

Embedding Models for RAG

RAG & Vector DBs
easy
8 reports
mcq

Cache Invalidation: Write-Through vs Write-Behind

Caching
hard
10 reports
mcq

Load Balancing Algorithms

Fundamentals
medium
10 reports
mcq

DoorDash: Notification System

Message Queues
medium
10 reports
mcq

Occasional Questions
56

Reported from time to time

BFS Data Structure

Trees & Graphs
easy
4 reports
mcq

Databricks: MERGE Operation

Arrays & Hashing
medium
4 reports
mcq

Bloomberg: Order Book Management

Stacks & Queues
medium
4 reports
mcq

Meta: Subarray Product Problem

Arrays & Hashing
medium
4 reports
mcq

Databricks: Consistent Hashing for Partitioning

Arrays & Hashing
hard
4 reports
mcq

Greedy: When It Fails

Sorting & Searching
medium
4 reports
mcq

House Robber II

Arrays & Hashing
medium
4 reports
coding

Climbing Stairs

Dynamic Programming
easy
4 reports
coding

Two Pointers: When to Use

Arrays & Hashing
easy
4 reports
mcq

Evaluate Reverse Polish Notation

Stacks & Queues
medium
4 reports
coding

Merge Intervals

Arrays & Hashing
medium
4 reports
coding

Uber: Shortest Path with Traffic

Trees & Graphs
hard
4 reports
mcq

Remove Duplicates from Sorted List

Linked Lists
easy
4 reports
coding

Robinhood: Decimal Precision

Arrays & Hashing
medium
4 reports
mcq

DP State Reduction

Dynamic Programming
hard
4 reports
mcq

Kth Largest Element in an Array

Arrays & Hashing
medium
4 reports
coding

Google: DP vs Greedy

Dynamic Programming
medium
4 reports
mcq

Bipartite Graph Chromatic Number

Trees & Graphs
hard
4 reports
mcq

LinkedIn: Feed Generation Strategy

Arrays & Hashing
hard
4 reports
mcq

Spotify: Play Queue Management

Stacks & Queues
medium
4 reports
mcq

Tesla: Battery Pack Cell Configuration

Dynamic Programming
hard
4 reports
mcq

Intervals: Merge Overlapping

Sorting & Searching
medium
4 reports
mcq

Encode and Decode Strings

Arrays & Hashing
medium
4 reports
coding

Heapsort Complexity

Stacks & Queues
medium
4 reports
mcq

K-Way Merge with Heap

Stacks & Queues
medium
4 reports
mcq

TikTok: Bloom Filter for Seen Content

Arrays & Hashing
hard
4 reports
mcq

Coinbase: Batch Transaction Processing

Arrays & Hashing
hard
4 reports
mcq

Spotify: Skip List for Playlist Index

Linked Lists
hard
4 reports
mcq

Sliding Window: Problem Recognition

Arrays & Hashing
easy
4 reports
mcq

Product of Array Except Self

Arrays & Hashing
medium
4 reports
coding

DP: Memoization vs Tabulation

Dynamic Programming
medium
4 reports
mcq

Meta: Two Pointer Pattern Recognition

Arrays & Hashing
medium
4 reports
mcq

Microsoft: Tree Traversal Order

Trees & Graphs
medium
4 reports
mcq

Coinbase: Atomic Transaction Processing

Arrays & Hashing
medium
4 reports
mcq

DP: 0/1 Knapsack Pattern

Dynamic Programming
medium
4 reports
mcq

Airbnb: Availability Calendar

Sorting & Searching
medium
4 reports
mcq

Container With Most Water

Arrays & Hashing
medium
4 reports
coding

Graph: Cycle Detection

Trees & Graphs
medium
4 reports
mcq

Coin Change

Dynamic Programming
medium
4 reports
coding

Heap Insert Complexity

Stacks & Queues
medium
4 reports
mcq

Heapify Time Complexity

Stacks & Queues
hard
4 reports
mcq

BFS vs DFS: When to Use BFS

Trees & Graphs
easy
4 reports
mcq

Merge Sorted Array

Arrays & Hashing
easy
4 reports
coding

Tree Traversal: Inorder Property

Trees & Graphs
medium
4 reports
mcq

Sort Colors (Dutch National Flag)

Sorting & Searching
medium
4 reports
mcq

Coinbase: Order Book Data Structure

Stacks & Queues
hard
4 reports
mcq

Number of Islands

Trees & Graphs
medium
4 reports
coding

Edit Distance Problem

Dynamic Programming
hard
4 reports
mcq

Word Break

Dynamic Programming
medium
4 reports
coding

DoorDash: Order-Dasher Matching

Arrays & Hashing
hard
4 reports
mcq

Number of 1 Bits

Arrays & Hashing
easy
4 reports
coding

Hash Map: Frequency Counting

Arrays & Hashing
medium
4 reports
mcq

Maximum Subarray Sum

Arrays & Hashing
medium
4 reports
coding

DoorDash: LRU Cache for Restaurant Data

Arrays & Hashing
medium
4 reports
mcq

Spotify: Artist Collaboration Graph

Trees & Graphs
hard
4 reports
mcq

Coinbase: Input Sanitization for Financial Data

Arrays & Hashing
medium
4 reports
mcq

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