I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Databricks (Phoenix, AZ) in Mar 2023
Interview
A Databricks recruiter reached out to me on LinkedIn and asked me to interview for the role. The recruiter said the role would focus on creating custom analytics solutions with Python and SQL, which seemed like a good fit for my background.
The next step was an hour long screen with the hiring manager. They rattled off a couple questions about Spark and a few networking tools I hadn't heard of, none of which was mentioned in the job description or discussed in the recruiter screen. The hiring manager was fairly rude and abruptly ended the interview after 15 minutes. A few days later, I got an email from the recruiter stating that they wouldn't move forward because "[insert brief reason]". Apparently their recruiting team can't even fill out their own email template.
Overall this was one of the least professional interviewing experiences I have had.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Asked about random technologies not mentioned in the JD
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Databricks (San Francisco, CA)
Interview
Stupidest and longest ever in my life. You can get 3 different jobs for the length on of one job interview here. Hr screening, hiring manager interview, technical interview, take home assessment, panel interview with 5-6 people, then one more team member form business sales team then one more and one more. It keeps going. In the end when finally they were ready to offer they asked for references even before giving an offer. And HM reached out to all the references with a 30 min call each. How much free time they have? So much micromanagement at the time of taking interviews itself.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
spark related questions. architecture related questions and constant meetings with HM before panel interview to take their feedback and prepare accordingly
Rounds and rounds of interview.. 1. HR screening call 2. Hiring manager interview 3. Take home assignment 4. Architecture interview 5. Company value interview 6. Technical interview 7. Wrap up interview It took 3 weeks to complete all these interviews. Felt efficient but somehow you didn't have time for other opportunities nor interviews. Fair enough if you wanted to pursue the position. At the wrap up interview, they did commit to update me on the progress as soon as possible. More than a week after, no update and I sent email to HR. He told me to update me next day, but never heard from him again. Try this company if you have plenty of time and want to practise your interview skills. Don't believe in their words. Completely liars and never respect the interviewees.