Databricks Senior Software Engineer interview questions

My interview experience was surprisingly terrible. Starting with a recruiter who wouldn't tell me which interview was which (apparently its policy not to disclose this; and the expectation is that there's no extra preparation required :facepalm: ) I was basically setup for failure with one of my coding interviewers asking me a very very specific LC hard level question with barely 30 minutes remaining in the interview. I was so turned off by this that the rest of the interviews became a joke to me. Despite the other interviews(HM, design, coding) being decent, I felt the Databricks interview process is artificially difficult(asking LC hard to senior candidates with 30 minutes remaining). I was really surprised that a company like Databricks had such a poor hiring process. Would not recommend interviewing here unless they make some serious changes.

Interview steps: 1. Recruiter conversation 2. Phone interview (data structures & algorithms) 3. Conversation with a hiring manager 4. Take home coding assignment 5. Onsite (3 technical + 1 behavioral) 6. Onsite2 system design I got rejected after the conversation with the hiring manager. Overall, I enjoyed my conversations with the engineers at Databricks but the interactions with recruiting were not as smooth as they could have been. Coordinating with the recruiter was very difficult. There were several miscommunications along the way. The interview process had a lot of steps and sounded like it would be much more time consuming than traditional software engineering interviews. They are not transparent upfront about what roles are available. They plan to go through the whole interview process first and then assign you to a role. This works great when there are a lot of roles but I was interested in a more specific domain and wanted to make sure there was a role available in that domain, which was difficult for the recruiter to provide information about.