Databricks poor interview experience
I interviewed with data bricks recently and had a really bad interview experience. The conversations and phone rounds started in early July and onsite was scheduled in Sept !!! The recruiter doesn't get back at all regarding the progress of the interview. Did 7 onsite interviews (9 interviewers) on single day and they wanted me to come back for more as they didn't have enough signals to make a decision ! Although i like the work DataBricks is doing the hiring process does need major overhaul.
their recruiting ghosts people regularly. TC isn't even that high. apply to salesforce instead. our recruiting team is much more professional and no monopoly money here.
Sorry mate. 7 rounds in a day sounds like too much. 7h of interviews and 1h lunch? Jfc! I'm curious what kind of role and level were you trying out for?
as someone who is about to leave, I really don’t get all the hype about this average startup. Shitty culture, almost zero leadership growth opportunities, nepotism at the early employee and founder level, below average salaries and utterly disrespectful hiring processes across the board (though sales and customer success take the cake)....how did we make it to linkedin top 20 again?
Lol Top 20 isn’t really that great. Plus our new chief people officer didn’t release the results of the culture survey again. That tells you something. The nepotism is pretty nuts and if you are outside of the circle you will get nowhere.
pretty telling that noone from databricks is really defending their behavior
I mean, they didn't really bring up anything specific to defend against. I'm super happy here fwiw. Granted I've only been here less than a year, but most people I work with have been here quite a long while and they all seem very happy at work.
i think this thread brought up a) terrible interview experience. b) terrible culture. it was quite specific, but it is cool if you are happy in that environment. one of your coworkers mentioned nepotism and zero advancement opportunities so perhaps you can reevaluate in a year or two.
I love our open culture. Definitely agree recruiting operation can be improved and we should.
You really think it is open?
Much more open than the fang companies I worked at before.
Seems like this company has really become proud and reflects in the attitude of its recruiters. recruiter no longer talks to aspiring candidates in a professional manner. She sounded very harsh and completely quashed my experience that definitely made me feel very offensive with the recruiter’s tone ! Heard a similar experience from a friend recently but could not believe until I experienced it first hand !
Was it mostly leetcode questions?