I applied online. I interviewed at Databricks in Feb 2026
Interview
Hiring manager interview, technical interview (knowledge about genai, system design, coding), behaviour, final catchup, background check; bad experience as got rejected even after background check. Been told since this is their AI engineer - FDE role, they want to make sure 100% right as this will be foundation member and I don't have external consulting experience. Then why bother start at the beginning ?
It was a live coding assessment where we had to solve a problem in 1 hour while describing our thought process. It was a question about graphs and
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It was a live coding assessment where we had to solve a problem in 1 hour while describing our thought process. That was it
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Databricks
Interview
1. tech screen (DSA) was leet code medium
2. meeting with recruiter
3. virtual onsite (algorithms (leetcode medium), systems design, behavioral, coding)
coding round was easy, algorithms was medium to hard, systems design round was hardest