The process took 8 weeks. I interviewed at Databricks
Interview
Call with recruiter, then zoom call with solution engineer manager and hiring manager, then presentation.
Recruiter ended up ghosting me weeks after meeting with the hiring manager. Looking at other opportunities with a better interview process.
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Question 1
Walk me through a deal you closed where you worked with a C level executive
I applied through other source. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Databricks (Los Angeles, CA) in Feb 2022
Interview
Interviewed with 1 IC, 1 SA, and multiple sales mgrs or sales mgrs in training. I was instructed to read on their Lakehouse Architecture and Delta Lake product however no product or competitive questions came up. A lot of questions around prospecting were asked as if I was interviewing for a BDR role. 1 formal presentation at the end which included a mock discovery call and a 3/6/12 month plan detailing on ramp, prospecting, goals, partnering, etc.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Databricks
Interview
I spoke with the recruiter who gave very positive immediate feedback and said the next step would be to schedule a 1:1 with the hiring manager. He then went on vacation without communicating that to me and did not respond to emails. I found out from an auto-reply. I back-channeled to the initial recruiter who reached out to me, and he introduced a new recruiter. She said they were passing on me for the Digital Native role because I was "not technical enough" even though that never came up in my previous conversation. Side note - I am a certified solutions architect for AWS and Azure, and have designed data lake and data pipeline solutions. How they missed that is beyond me. The new recruiter, realizing that I am extremely technical after a 5-minute phone call, said she would get back to me by the end of that day or early the next, but that never happened. Just an overall horrible process with no regard for your time.