I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Databricks (San Francisco, CA) in Mar 2017
Interview
I applied online, HR person talk about the technology about you worked on and about future with your goals.
Second round - Technical with Hiring manager, basically they will see about if you really worked on the technology or not. Scenario based questions.
Third Round : Assignment on Spark (Scala or Python) on Notebook.
Forth Round : Technical Interview with coding skills specially on Java and Scala/Python using Spark.
Once you clear , they will let you know in 1 week .
Finally Onsite Interview - 6 rounds - one after another, go into deep and more deep with technology.
Don't bluff if you don't know say clearly but if you say you know and you actually didn't work on that they will pull you very deeply, because they know hadoop, aws, spark , scala , java and python very very depth.
Just take it easy , as they are also human's they know you can't work on all the technology so if you know that's good enough.
Finally I got the offer by next day morning. I am so happy that I did well and they liked me.
Databricks interview process is very ordered way but onsite interview is very long.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Spark - (Life cycle of Spark), Scala fundamental's, Scala collections, Python file operation, Unix basic commands, Performance Tuning on Spark and SQL
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Databricks (San Francisco, CA) in Jan 2017
Interview
Interview was scheduled and then cancelled because certain job requirements were not included in the job listing or communicated to the recruiters until a week after the interview was scheduled. I take this as an example of the company's organizational skills and internal communications, and I feel like I have dodged a bullet. Time wasters.
The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Databricks (Oakland, CA) in Oct 2016
Interview
Recruiter called to schedule a time to chat. Did that but she missed the first appointment. So had to emailed her back and did not hear back for another week. Finally got the email and scheduled a second phone call. Turned out it was just a phone screen that only lasted about 10 to 15 minutes. Told that I would get a reply by the end of the week. Received a rejection letter.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What are 3 things you look forward to in an internship.