Databricks Solutions Engineer interview experience

I remember getting two technical questions that looked simple on the surface, but they weren’t the kind of LeetCode-style problems I expected—more than once it felt like the prompt style was different from what I’d trained for.

After that, the loop became unusually heavy and time-consuming. Over about a couple and a half weeks, I was asked to sit through multiple phone/Zoom interviews, multiple presentations, and additional SQL coding tests. The hiring manager kept telling me everything was going well, and I believed them while I was doing the work. Even so, the timeline and the amount of