Technical Screen

Design a Hit Counter in a Key-Value Store

DatabricksSoftware Engineer · Technical Screen · Sep 2025

The interviewer emphasized that he wanted me to focus on analyzing my decisions and writing high quality code, etc. The question was: design a hit counter in a key-value store. But it wasn't stated that directly at first — the interviewer built up the requirements step by step. Design a key-value store -> asked me to think about the user experience I said I'd use generics, but in the middle I mad…

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