I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Databricks in Nov 2024
Interview
The entire process was quite long in my opinion. Going through 7 interview steps and not getting an offer at the end is a lot to take. Especially since so much preparation is needed for the different interview steps. And it appears as if the same questions are asked during the interviews. It was all done in around 4 weeks but unfortunately with a different hiring manager each time. It would be better if the interview process is more streamlined - especially for mid level roles. It doesn’t make sense that everyone has the same 8 step interview process irrespective of their career level. At least the people were all nice. From the recruiter down to the seven different employees I spoke with
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
OLAP, OLTP, partitioning, spark related questions. why do you want to you leave your current company? Explain a difficult client situation you’ve been in, etc
first round was with the recruiter. did not get past that. Mostly because the experience didnt match. They are very precise on years of experience. They are very precise on years of experience.
Poor interview process. Were unclear about stages and mixed up the sequence of stages. I cleared the advanced stages first but didn’t clear the HM stage. A bit of a let down to both parties as it wasted our precious time due to misaligned expectations.
The hiring process consists of several stages: a recruiter interview, technical interviews, a hiring manager interview, a case study interview, and a technical assessment assignment to evaluate candidate skills and suitability in python and spark.
