I was contacted on LinkedIn by the manager who invited me to interview and learn about the company. I had a call with her and two phone screen coding interviews. The interviews were easy to medium, and I did quite well. They sent me another invite for another call with the same manager, which felt unusual.

In this interview, she asked me peculiar questions, such as why I wanted to join Databricks (I should have answered that I wasn't sure yet because I was still trying to discover if Databricks was a good fit for me, but I didn't).

I asked her a lot of questions regarding the company culture and the value she placed on engineers, as well as about the future of Databricks. I was very disappointed with the answers, which mostly avoided the questions. I felt like she was upset because of my honest questions, which were totally fine to ask from my point of view.

Another aspect of the interview process is that HR was not professional at all, ignoring some of my questions and using a lot of automatic replies.

After the interview with the manager, they sent me a no-reply email stating my application was rejected (the funny thing was that I never applied). I asked for feedback about the manager interview but my email was totally ignored.

I think this company is just trying to pretend it's the best place to work, but from the manager chat, I completely changed this idea. There is a big difference between the image and the real culture. Maybe I am biased, but this is the impression that I got from the manager chat and the way HR deals with candidates.

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