I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Databricks (Paris) in Dec 2020
Interview
Great experience, well defined steps. HR contact was there to explain me the next steps. The people I met during the process increased my motivation to join. Very humble yet highly skilled people in their domain. The interview process was quite long; HR screening, hiring manager interview, take home assignment on DB platform (scala + python mix), 2 technical interviews, then 4 more culture fit interviews with people from different teams.
In parallel I had another offer but the HR rep tried his best to accelerate the process so I can have an offer in time.
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Databricks (Guntūr) in Feb 2021
Interview
1st Spark Coding Round on Databricks Notebook.
2nd, 3rd Interview with Senior Team members
4th Interview with Solutions Architect
5th Interview with Senior Project Manager
6th Interview with Customer Success Manager
7th, 8th Interview with Vp's
9th Interview with Senior Director
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Mostly on Spark, Performance, Optimisations and Cloud Technologies.
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Databricks (Paris) in Jan 2021
Interview
A very good and clear but long hiring process. It is clear, well structured and starts by a first "HR" interview" then it gets more and more technical in the next interviews. It finishes by talking to managers. The technical recruiter and the talent operations analyst helped me a lot in understanding the steps of the process and they were available to answer my questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The interviewers asked me about my previous experiences, Spark architecture, Spark API, machine learning and cloud storage. There is also a customer facing scenario interview where they describe to me a situation and asked me to propose a solution and argue my choices. There is also a hands on evaluation to do online on their platform.
