I was contacted by a recruiter who arranged the first coding round with an engineer. The interviewer gave a one-sentence description of a super simple problem and made no attempt to clarify. I assumed they were being intentionally vague so that I would ask questions. When I asked some clarifying questions, they just said it was an implementation detail and the requirement was already clear. I started writing some code with my assumptions and wrote a solution, but I did not get any feedback on whether I was going in the right or wrong direction. To my surprise, I was then asked to copy the same functionality twice and was asked to fix compilation errors and run the code. After the first run, the output was not correct. I found the bug and started fixing it, but was told they had a hard stop and needed to go. I explained the bug and how I would fix it, and we wrapped up the interview. I have been on both sides of the interview table multiple times and never had such a weird experience. It may sound like sour grapes, but Databricks interviewers could use some training.

PS - Apparently, there is a one-year cooling-off period, and I can't interview there for another year.

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