Databricks·Software Engineer

Databricks Software Engineer interview experience

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Hard

Positive

Bellevue, WAPosted Sep 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I started with an HR call, and then the technical part came in two live coding rounds plus a behavioral interview.

The technical rounds felt approachable: one was an OOP-based design coding question where I had to think in terms of structure, and the other involved a sliding window algorithm.

Overall, it didn’t feel like the hardest coding process I’d been through, but the experience still came across as difficult in the bigger picture—live execution and design thinking both mattered, and the time pressure made it easy to overthink. The behavioral round rounded things out by testing how I communicated and how I handled situations, not just whether I could solve the problems.

I left feeling like I did a

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