Databricks·Backend Engineer

Databricks Backend Engineer interview experience

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BelgiumPosted Aug 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I applied through the open roles portal, and a sourcer reached out to schedule a recruiter call.

That call was 30 minutes, focused on describing the role and giving me a chance to talk through my background, then I scheduled a one-hour technical screen for algorithms and data structures. I found out the same day that feedback was very positive, and they moved me forward to an onsite loop.

The onsite was scheduled about a week later and ran across two days: two one-hour interviews each day. Monday was behavioral with the Director of Engineering, where we covered algorithms/data structures along with how I think and work, and Tuesday combined coding with systems programming. Code writing

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