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arjuniyer00Aug 11, 2026

Databricks backend loop, rejected after System Programming round

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avamillerAug 11, 2026

their loss honestly, sounds like you handled the rest of the loop well. good luck with whatever's next

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User-xwzz5Aug 11, 2026

went through something similar a few months back, got the Log Writer question too and also ran out of time on the concurrency part. feels like that round is built to catch people off guard

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axeAug 15, 2026

"but shipped a bug under time pressure" wondering what is the bug that costed you the round that was otherwise going good? Also no starter code is going to be so time consuming, do they expect to run any inbuilt tests in system coding round or pseudo code is sufficient?

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jamesmiller167283Aug 11, 2026

how'd you even think to switch off LCA mid round? that seems like a hard pivot to make under pressure

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arjuniyer00Aug 11, 2026

honestly just panicked when LCA wasn't working and started thinking about the subtree size pattern instead, kind of a lucky guess ngl

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User-mm0f5Aug 11, 2026

damn the System Programming round again lol. did they give you any starter code or did you have to design the whole interface yourself?

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arjuniyer00Aug 11, 2026

no starter code, had to define the interface myself which ate into the time too tbh

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poojaiyer1994Aug 11, 2026

sorry to hear man, sounds like you did everything right except that one round. rough way to go out

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