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Behavioral interview was also fairly standard. This was a 1h chat with the hiring Director of Engineering about my background, asking typical behavioral questions. After each answer, the interviewer would either ask follow-ups or recap my answer in a few sentences before moving on to a different behavioral question.
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Software Engineer (Backend)

Interviewed at Databricks

4
Aug 5, 2025

Behavioral interview was also fairly standard. This was a 1h chat with the hiring Director of Engineering about my background, asking typical behavioral questions. After each answer, the interviewer would either ask follow-ups or recap my answer in a few sentences before moving on to a different behavioral question.

Design a microservice-based backend that asynchronously handles inserting millions of image resources via download URLs, processes and stores the images, generates public image URLs, and ensures customers receive these URLs.
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Backend Developer

Interviewed at DemoUp Cliplister

3.9
Jan 28, 2025

Design a microservice-based backend that asynchronously handles inserting millions of image resources via download URLs, processes and stores the images, generates public image URLs, and ensures customers receive these URLs.

Interview was mostly about leaning about your thinking and approach towards a problem. How do you come up about handling a problem related to scale, are you able to modularize your components. There were 3 rounds : 1) Round one was simple Java based question, not much about algorithms, data structures. It was more about coming up with right states as Enums, designing right processing flow, handling edge cases. 2) This was system design round about developing some component which may be used in booking.com. It was more about handling large scales, retries, failures, external system integration etc. 3) Third round was cultural fit round to evaluate how you handle pressure, failure, team etc.
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Backend Developer

Interviewed at Booking.com

4.1
May 2, 2022

Interview was mostly about leaning about your thinking and approach towards a problem. How do you come up about handling a problem related to scale, are you able to modularize your components. There were 3 rounds : 1) Round one was simple Java based question, not much about algorithms, data structures. It was more about coming up with right states as Enums, designing right processing flow, handling edge cases. 2) This was system design round about developing some component which may be used in booking.com. It was more about handling large scales, retries, failures, external system integration etc. 3) Third round was cultural fit round to evaluate how you handle pressure, failure, team etc.

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