Databricks Full Stack Engineer interview experience

The manager part was genuinely pleasant, which made the whole process feel more reasonable at the start.

But the system design interview was where I got stuck. It was described in a way that felt ambiguous and hard to navigate, and I couldn’t lock onto what they wanted. Once I realized I was fighting the framing rather than the problem itself, my confidence took a hit.

Even with the friendly atmosphere around me, I didn’t get through at the end. That mismatch between expectations and how the question was presented ended up being the biggest factor.