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      Principal Software Engineer Interview

      May 31, 2026
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      No offer
      Positive experience
      Difficult interview

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      I applied online. I interviewed at Databricks in Apr 2026

      Interview

      Initial Hiring Manger screen, with high-level technical questions like "which db type would you use", "difference between hashmap and list", generic DSA questions, some questions on DB indices After the initial, went on to hard system design, design a stock broker API, implementing the buy and the sell APIs. Be careful to read the requirements very carefully.

      Interview questions [2]

      Question 1

      "which db type would you use", "difference between hashmap and list", generic DSA questions, some questions on DB indices
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      Question 2

      Design a stock broker system, to handle BUY and SELL orders. We just forward the orders to a trading desk. But we must make sure when an order is expiring it's never sent. Note expiring orders will likely cluster at the end of the day.
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