The hiring process consisted of an introductory interview (30 minutes), followed by two technical interviews (1 hour each). The first technical interview was performed by the third-party Karat, to establish base-line programming ability. The second technical interview was performed in-house and was effectively a poor imitation of the Karat process - it was described as a second-round technical interview (requiring some familiarity with the Databricks product) but consisted of the same content as the first-round interview, albeit with a much worse question set. It is also worth noting that the position advertised was for backend, but the Databricks interviewer was a frontend engineer and unfamiliar with the language used during the interview. The programming language "choice" was also criticised despite being required for the position.