I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Databricks (Durham, NC) in Jan 2022
Interview
1. Recruiter call
2. Hiring Manager call about experience
3. Technical Interview
3a. Hands-on Assignment
4. Panel + Presentation + Architecture Interviews
Fairly lengthy, but the hiring manager stayed in touch with me in between every step to let me know things were going well and what the next steps would be and timelines.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Experience
2. How does Databricks stack up to competitors? (During panel interview)
3. Let's go through a hypothetical architecture (related to your experience)
I applied through other source. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Databricks (San Francisco, CA) in Feb 2022
Interview
After spending a considerable amount of time putting together a demo and slides deck, crafting a narrative and a message for a presentation and demo in a panel interview in a final 5 minutes meeting where the hiring manager showed up more than 5 minutes late, I only received negative feedback saying I wouldn't be able to communicate effectively with customers.
Who would want to work for a hiring manager like this?
It was humiliating to only get negative feedback and be treated like an afterthought.
I think with hiring managers like this Best Place to work for this company feels overrated.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
There were many questions which I thought I was able to answer as a professional to the best of my ability in a constructive and objective way.
I applied through other source. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Databricks in Jan 2020
Interview
The hiring process was started by the VP Field Engineering with a LinkedIn message. After the first short call, the official process started during Q1 2020. The role was within the Field Engineering team. After completing a lengthy and time consuming process of six interviews and a relatively bulky coding challenge, it was unfortunate to know that my offer letter will not be released because of the hiring freeze during first Covid lockdown.
What surprised me the most: Instead of fulfilling the promise to send the offer whenever possible, one of the VP Field Engineering interviewed me again after six months and asked me what technologies have I worked in the past 6 months, and why did I not work on Spark? He asked me to solve the coding challenge once again because he believed I might have lost my spark coding skills. While the other VP (whose team I was going to join) did not even bother to reply on my emails at all.
After spending 20-30 hours of my time on the entire process, I felt disrespected to receive the rejection stating that I do not have the skills for the position. This was by far the worst interview experience of my entire professional career.
I am not sure If I would consider to apply there again to work under such a leadership team