Databricks interview

Take home after the on-site ?? 😂

8 rounds in total

I thought the interview process was really easy

How is Splunk?

Lol what’s the point of the on-site if you have more to do after

YoE?

Lol yeah I said no ty after the screen, which they gave me an assignment 🤣 I got 6 offers after that, never looked back.

8 rounds? That’s ridiculous. Seems like they are still trying to refine their interview process and have not trained their interviewers to follow a playbook. Granted, they are a hot start-up at the moment and can put their candidates through the ringer if they chose to.

So i went through this process. I can confirm its real. The process took months. The take home assignment generally is something only done if the candidate did not perform 100%. If the candidate was on the edge, they will do a takehome. 1. Sys design phone screen 2. onsite (1 sys, 2 coding, 1 behavoral) 3. HC: leaning yes, not sure 4. References (actually called) and take home 5. Request for me to fix part of my take home 6. Offer It was an insanely long process and im hoping its something we can slim down a bit. But honestly thats just part of it. Databricks is trying to set a really high bar and that means more steps :(

I don't know where all the talk of 8 rounds comes from. I recently went through the process and had only 6 rounds, 2 phone and 4 onsite. Not much more than usual. Time from second phone interview to offer was only two weeks, I had other offers so they expedited everything and I was also able to skip the take-home. Reference checks are brutal yes but honestly I found it kinda fun and I think my references also enjoyed it. Would suck if every company did them but I can imagine that this approach does select for better colleagues. Plus in the end the TC is worth it. L4 TC here is basically L5 TC elsewhere, you're not getting any higher offers outside of trading companies and a few select much more risky startups.