Databricks poor interview experience

Sep 10, 2019 12 Comments

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.

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  • 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?
    Sep 11, 2019 0
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    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.
    Sep 11, 2019 0
  • pretty telling that noone from databricks is really defending their behavior
    Sep 13, 2019 3
    • 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.
      Sep 14, 2019
    • Interview exp is very variable. I've had terrible experiences with Google (horribly uncoordinated, incompetent recruiter) for example, while most other people I know were very happy with Google recruiters. 7 rounds in a day fwiw is something I've personally never heard of at Databricks, but they didn't say what they were trying out for (I'd asked below), so it's hard to say what the rationale was. My guess is that two people felt strongly about it, but on the opposite ends of the spectrum.

      I actually find the open culture refreshing myself, but maybe the people complaining aren't too happy with it being that open - the complaint itself is very vague. There's not much to say about it.

      But yeah, maybe I'll feel differently in another couple of years. We'll have to wait and see.
      Sep 15, 2019
  • I love our open culture. Definitely agree recruiting operation can be improved and we should.
    Sep 24, 2019 2
  • 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.
    Sep 10, 2019 0