The hiring process at Databricks takes an average of 60 days when considering 2 user submitted interviews across all job titles. Candidates applying for Big Data Architect had the quickest hiring process (on average 60 days), whereas Big Data Architect roles had the slowest hiring process (on average 60 days).
recruiter call then technical. recruiter was very nice and asked general questions on resume, and they followed up for the next interview pretty fast. technical was one round back to back, not too difficult
3 rounds, 1 case interview, 1 fundamentals and 1 SQL interview. The case interview was extremely technical and the fundamentals interview didn't cover my resume at all. Overall it was quite difficult, and the fundamentals interview prep sheet was not helpful at all
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Q1: what are the assumptions of linear regression
Q2: would a random forest overestimate or underestimate revenue compared to a ARIMA model when forecasting average revenue
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Databricks (San Francisco, CA) in Oct 2025
Interview
1 phone screen
1 hr call
2 coding vos
1 system design vo
1 bq vo
within one month, the vos are back-to-back
very easy, coding should be fast
the interviewers were friendly and brilliant