RejectedTechnical Screen

Rejected Same Day Despite a Smooth BFS Solution

DatabricksSoftware Engineer · Senior+ · Technical Screen · Oct 2025

The interviewer was a Senior engineer, and he was 5 minutes late. He started off explaining what his team does — since this was a direct match on background with an infra team, I spent about 3-5 minutes introducing what I used to do on my previous team, and he asked me one question about it. After this intro segment, there was about 45 minutes left. The actual interview started. It was a known qu…

Shared by a candidate · reported Oct 2025. Interview formats change; use it as a guide, not a script.