Hey there, want to share my experience of interview process to SE Intern at Databricks, Amsterdam. 1. Cleared Karat Interview. Solved two problems (LC easy, LC medium) and solved third one, but didn't have time to debug. 2. Cleared second round. LC medium problem. Wrote the O(n) time, O(n) space solution in like 5-7 minutes, but spent a lot of time on figuring out constant space solution 3. Cleared behavioral interview with hiring manager. Standard behavioral questions. 4. After a week of waiting, got an email saying that I need to do one more technical round. I proposed and solved the problem in both optimal space and time in about 10-15 minutes. Was super happy at that moment and probably lost concentration. After that, I was asked to write a thorough test suite and were asked additional questions. The interviewer asked me about how a value is inserted in the min heap (I used that data structure), but I really didn't remember such a detail. Further, I was asked to write tests. I wrote like 5-6 test cases which seemed quite ok for me. After 3-4 days, got an invite to the call with the recruiter. The recruiter told me that I didn't passed. The reason was that although there were "No" at any point of my application from the team, they decided to go with a candidate with more relevant experience (I have more ML experience, rather than a Data Engineering). I'm quite sad with the result, it seemed to me that I solved all tech problems decently. If I wasn't a match by skill, why to torture me for two months. Meh. Otherwise, the process went smooth, the recruiter was quite responsive. #engineering #databricks #internship #intern #amsterdam #softwareengineer #software
Just having ML model experience doesn't help. One needs to have engineering experience
Under ML experience I mean not just running notebooks, but rather full software packages with cloud integration and stuff
Tough luck! 😐 what were your questions in Karat interview?
1 LC easy, 2 LC medium
Can you point questions? CS fundamentals were asked?
But frankly speaking, you should have known how a value is inserted in min heap
Yeah, now I know it :) I was never asked about exact algorithm before, saying that it's balanced tree and time complexities was always enough
Which University did u study that u didn't get to learn how a heap works ??
Why tf do they call to reject
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This is bad. They should have hired both who are qualified