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DatabricksForward Deployed Engineer · L3“When I went through Databricks, it honestly felt like a Palantir-style FDE loop had been transplanted over. The decomp round was so vague that if I skipped stakeholder questions and KPIs and jumped into architecture, I would have been dead.”
DatabricksForward Deployed Engineer · L3“Databricks tries to prepare you well by giving very elaborate instructions on what to expect and how to prepare”
DatabricksProduct Manager · L3“The process was quite straightforward. I had time to work on my PRD assignment and the guidelines were helpful. The only thing is that because you only get a week to complete it, the work can be vigorous. ”
DatabricksEngineering Manager · L6“I got reached out by HM directly, then recruiter call with some hygiene questions - they asked me to prepare well for system design as most candidate chipped during that round. So was I eventually.. I was able to give a high-level design of working solution with several area I proactively did deep dive, interviewer also dig in other areas. During those digging into details since I didn't have the actual experience building such an app in real work, I asked for hints (twice), that probably didn't click with the interviewer.”
DatabricksSoftware Engineer · L5“Overall process is good, recruiter moves fast, interviewer is collaborative. The expectation for coding round is high - aim for optimal and bug-free solution. ”
DatabricksProduct Manager · L7“Quite long and exhausting. Hiring manager was cheerful and helpful, did his best along the way, but some of further interviewers were quite detached ”
DatabricksAI Engineer · L4“The team prepares you well for each interview. There is a slicksheet that they give you that describes each section. Very well organized interview process.”
DatabricksEngineering Manager · L5“I have 2 technical screens and the bar for EM for system designs is very high. The recruiter communication was very good. However the process took very long. ”
DatabricksSoftware Engineer · Intern“The process was pretty straightforward, basically just Leetcode-style technical questions. The final behavioral round was with an engineering manager and he was very interested in my past internship experiences. Basically all of his questions related to my professional experiences, not to my class or personal projects.”
DatabricksSoftware Engineer · L3“Fairly standard recruiter screen -> initial 1hr coding interview (for new grad position). The interviewer hinted that there would be a follow up part of the question, but I didn't have time to get to that part.”
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AnthropicSoftware Engineer, Safeguards · L5“The weirdest Anthropic round was the company values interview. It was almost like a therapy session, and honestly if you went to a therapist at some point, you will pass that round much more easily.”
NetflixEngineering Manager, Tooling“What was very unusual is they didn’t give me any tooling to draw the system design, so I just sketched it on a piece of paper and talked them through it, then we got into this oddly deep debate about whether hover-over history should count as a recommendation signal.”
