Databricks·Software Engineer

Databricks Software Engineer interview experience

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Negative

United StatesPosted Sep 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My experience felt rough from the start because the interviewer changed multiple times, which made the whole session feel chaotic.

During the interview itself, I ran into constant interruptions for clarifications about my implementation, largely because the interviewer didn’t seem to know the basic technique I was using.

Those clarifying questions kept coming every couple of seconds, and it drained the time I had to actually run the code and validate the result. I kept trying to recover my momentum, but the structure of the interaction meant I was effectively stuck explaining rather than finishing the work.

By the end, I was overall disappointed—not just with the rejection, but with how the interview was handled and

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