Databricks Software Engineer interview experience

After the initial outreach, I went through a code assignment / coding assessment phase and then moved into a technical interview segment, followed by a meet-the-manager conversation and then higher-level interviews.

What stood out most was how deep they expected me to know the Databricks ecosystem—both from an engineering angle and with enough familiarity across machine-learning-adjacent concepts to hold my own in the technical discussions. The later rounds also felt more demanding than “just solve coding problems,” because the bar was really about how I reasoned in the context of their