Technical Screen

A Snapshot Set Iterator and an Interviewer Who Wouldn't Stop Interfering

DatabricksSoftware Engineer · Technical Screen · Apr 2026

Snapshot set iterator — the problem said the return order didn't matter. After I said I needed two data structures — a list of logs and a dict — and laid out my rough approach, the interviewer asked if I had another way to do it. Then he suggested that instead of one shared logs list for all keys, it could just be a dict where each key has its own logs, rather than all keys sharing one list of lo…

Shared by a candidate · reported Apr 2026. Interview formats change; use it as a guide, not a script.