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
I applied online and was contacted by a recruiter for an initial call. My background and experience were not aligned with the role, so we did not proceed to the next round.
Unfortunately, the interview experience was not very positive. The recruiter was late to the scheduled call, and the communication style felt somewhat one-sided and pushy rather than collaborative. I would have appreciated a more balanced and respectful conversation.
Multiple rounds of interview , take home assessment was not very tough . But panel presentation round was tough , it seems they want candidate who can wow them even though all rounds went fine .
I go the first phone call which went pretty well. Then I passed a first panel round on simple architecture. Did first round technical round, but never heard back again.