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Databricks AI Engineer Interview Questions

The questions to prepare for a Databricks AI Engineer interview. Questions from real interview reports rank first. Updated weekly.

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CodingStart here. 11 questions · ~105 min
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Model Evaluation3 questions · ~29 min
Monitor RAG Retrieval FailureMedium

Design monitoring for a Databricks RAG app where retrieval hit@5 and groundedness are falling while latency stays flat.

AccuracyThreshold TuningRecallDatabricks
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Pipelines6 questions · ~57 min
Terraform State for Databricks PipelinesMedium

Design remote Terraform state, locking, and promotion workflows for reusable Databricks pipeline infrastructure across multi-env AWS deployments.

InfrastructureDependenciesQualityDatabricks
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Machine Learning3 questions · ~29 min
Fine-Tuning vs Prompted APIsMedium

Compare when to fine-tune a foundation model versus relying on prompt engineering with a managed API.

Trade-offsPrompt Engineeringmodel fine-tuningDatabricks
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NLP6 questions · ~57 min
State and Memory in Multi-Turn LLMsHard

Tests your ability to design reliable context handling for multi-turn LLM systems.

Language ModelsWord EmbeddingsTokenizationDatabricks
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Behavioral & Leadership8 questions · ~76 min
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More topics4 questions · ~38 min
Aggregate Support Ticket ThemesEasy
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Count recurring high-confidence ticket themes in April using joins, filtering, and grouped aggregation.

Data WranglingGroup ByAggregationsDatabricks
Launch Databricks Support RAG AgentMedium

Plan a 10-week launch for a Databricks-native RAG support agent while aligning executives, security, and engineering on scope trade-offs.

Trade-offsSuccess CriteriaRoadmappingDatabricks
Design a Databricks-native RAG support agent with offline eval and online SLOsMedium

Databricks-native RAG design with Spark ETL, Vector Search, DBRX/FM serving, and MLflow Agent Evaluation under strict SLOs.

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