Databricks

Software Development Engineer (SDE) Intern Interview Experience

May 7, 2026

Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

I applied online. The process took 4 weeks.

There are back-to-back interviews, each taking one hour:

First interview is about system design coding.
Second interview is about algorithm coding.

You have about 40 minutes to do each coding, and they will ask you further questions.

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Databricks's interview process for their Software Development Engineer (SDE) Intern roles is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

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Candidates reported having very good feelings for Databricks's Software Development Engineer (SDE) Intern interview process.

Databricks Work Experiences

Best company I have worked for

Software Engineering • Current Employee

February 2, 2023

Pros: CEOs, Founders, & Executives are great leaders and visionaries. Transparency, culture, benefits, innovation. Amazing growth. Employees first company.

Cons: Work-life balance is just okay.

Best company I have worked for

Software Engineering • Current Employee

February 2, 2023

Pros: CEOs, Founders, & Executives are great leaders and visionaries. Transparency, culture, benefits, innovation. Amazing growth. Employees first company.

Cons: Work-life balance is just okay.

Great place to work, beware of work/life imbalance

Enterprise Solution Architect • Current Employee

Pros: Great technology, lots of enthusiasm inside the company.

Cons: It's still a startup; some managers don't have a lot of experience and may not be the best listeners when something goes wrong.

Great place to work, beware of work/life imbalance

Enterprise Solution Architect • Current Employee

Pros: Great technology, lots of enthusiasm inside the company.

Cons: It's still a startup; some managers don't have a lot of experience and may not be the best listeners when something goes wrong.

Intelligent people, bureaucratic leadership, and very slow promotion

Staff Software Engineer • Current Employee

San Francisco, California, United States

September 1, 2023

Pros: Smart engineers and a humble place to work. Good product and reputation.

Cons: Quite political and with top-heavy leadership and unrealistic, always cut-throat deadlines. Quite poor WLB. Slow or no career progression unless you are the lucky ones picked by founders.

Intelligent people, bureaucratic leadership, and very slow promotion

Staff Software Engineer • Current Employee

San Francisco, California, United States

September 1, 2023

Pros: Smart engineers and a humble place to work. Good product and reputation.

Cons: Quite political and with top-heavy leadership and unrealistic, always cut-throat deadlines. Quite poor WLB. Slow or no career progression unless you are the lucky ones picked by founders.

Best company I have worked for

Software Engineering • Current Employee

February 2, 2023

Pros: CEOs, Founders, & Executives are great leaders and visionaries. Transparency, culture, benefits, innovation. Amazing growth. Employees first company.

Cons: Work-life balance is just okay.

5.0
Best company I have worked for
Software Engineering • Current Employee
February 2, 2023
Pros: CEOs, Founders, & Executives are great leaders and visionaries. Transparency, culture, benefits, innovation. Amazing growth. Employees first company.
Cons: Work-life balance is just okay.

Great place to work, beware of work/life imbalance

Enterprise Solution Architect • Current Employee

Pros: Great technology, lots of enthusiasm inside the company.

Cons: It's still a startup; some managers don't have a lot of experience and may not be the best listeners when something goes wrong.

4.0
Great place to work, beware of work/life imbalance
Enterprise Solution Architect • Current Employee
April 19, 2021
Pros: Great technology, lots of enthusiasm inside the company.
Cons: It's still a startup; some managers don't have a lot of experience and may not be the best listeners when something goes wrong.

Intelligent people, bureaucratic leadership, and very slow promotion

Staff Software Engineer • Current Employee

San Francisco, California, United States

September 1, 2023

Pros: Smart engineers and a humble place to work. Good product and reputation.

Cons: Quite political and with top-heavy leadership and unrealistic, always cut-throat deadlines. Quite poor WLB. Slow or no career progression unless you are the lucky ones picked by founders.

4.0
Intelligent people, bureaucratic leadership, and very slow promotion
Staff Software Engineer • Current Employee
San Francisco, California, United States
September 1, 2023
Pros: Smart engineers and a humble place to work. Good product and reputation.
Cons: Quite political and with top-heavy leadership and unrealistic, always cut-throat deadlines. Quite poor WLB. Slow or no career progression unless you are the lucky ones picked by founders.

Databricks Interview Questions

Design Hit Counter

Design a hit counter that records hits and retrieves the number of hits in the past 5 minutes. You need to implement methods to record a hit and get the total hits in a sliding window.

Design Tic-Tac-Toe

Implement a Tic-Tac-Toe game where players take turns placing their marks. Design the game logic to efficiently determine the winner after each move.

IP to CIDR

Convert an IP address and a number of addresses to a CIDR block representation. Find the smallest list of CIDR blocks that covers the specified range of IP addresses.

Bit Manipulation

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