I applied online. I interviewed at Databricks in Oct 2024
Interview
I had a call with the recruiter, we hit it off, he accelerated me to the first part of the process which was an interview with the hiring manager. The first interview was speed dating, lots of rapid fire questions with limited time to answer.
The recruiter never responded to me again. Despite e-mails, phone calls, voicemails, he never spoke to me again.
A week later I get the recruiting coordinator time request for the next rounds, which in order (after weeks in between) were technical leader, sales leader, and sales executive.
Very poor experience, overall. Databricks does not respect how much time an ace candidate takes to prepare for their interviews. Their interviews are rushed and fairly surface level.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What are the components of a sale?
Tell me about your experience?
What do you know about the data space?
What are some use cases for you see for Databricks.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Databricks (São Paulo, São Paulo) in Dec 2025
Interview
RH inflexível, interrompeu o processo de contratação devido a preconceitos com relação ao currículo, não permitindo, sequer, uma avaliação direta com o candidato. O RH, através de uma verificação superficial das empresas listadas no currículo, deduziu um comportamento erroneamente, que seria facilmente esclarecido numa rápida conversa, mas preferiu eliminar um excelente candidato do processo baseado em conceitos pré definidos.
I applied online. I interviewed at Databricks (Paris) in Oct 2025
Interview
Floue peu de retour, process long republication de l'annonce
Un management qui ne sait pas ce qu'il veut
Un retour mail automatique mais avec le mauvaise intitulé
Suis-je le seul ?
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Quelle est la business value de notre entreprise ?
Very poor candidate experience with unnecessary steps. Expect you to interview like you’ve been working there for 1+ years. Prior to interviewing, I was told by other people that the culture was toxic. I got to see this in the SA interview. Being a top performing sales rep is not good enough. Expect to be grilled by the SA asking you to sell their platform to them.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Think of a company you sold to and how would you sell Databricks to them.
