J'ai postulé en ligne. Le processus a pris 2 semaines. J'ai passé un entretien chez Databricks (Amsterdam) en févr. 2020
Entretien
The hiring process consisted of an introductory interview (30 minutes), followed by two technical interviews (1 hour each).
The first technical interview was performed by the third-party Karat, to establish base-line programming ability.
The second technical interview was performed in-house and was effectively a poor imitation of the Karat process - it was described as a second-round technical interview (requiring some familiarity with the Databricks product) but consisted of the same content as the first-round interview, albeit with a much worse question set.
It is also worth noting that the position advertised was for backend, but the Databricks interviewer was a frontend engineer and unfamiliar with the language used during the interview. The programming language "choice" was also criticised despite being required for the position.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
[Broad overview] Given a data model, provided as a string, calculate or extract some specific information from the model that requires it to be processed and interpreted while accounting for both escape sequences and quoted contents. It was heavily hinted that the correct answer used regular expressions.
J'ai passé un entretien chez Databricks (Amsterdam)
Entretien
Had an initial recruiter screen for a Software Engineer position. The call lasted around 15 minutes and covered the usual ground: my background and experience, motivation for applying, current role, and salary expectations. The recruiter also gave a clear overview of teams, the product, and the full interview process ahead.
1. Phone interview with HR.
2. Technical coding question using coder pad. Have to implement from scratch.
Interview process was very fast and recruiter was friendly
Question was little vague but it seems to be leaked a lot on the internet
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
Why Databricks?
Past experience.
Projects you have worked on
J'ai passé un entretien chez Databricks (Seattle, WA)
Entretien
didn't make it past the first technical round. questions are decently challenging (ie: leetcode med/hard level difficulty), and can range from very mathy topics to bit manipulation, to dynamic programming. be prepared for all scenarios and all topics on leetcode.
