Software Engineer Interview Experience - San Francisco, California
Process
The process was fairly standard.
The recruiter scheduled a phone screen, a phone interview with a short technical screen, and then an onsite interview.
Everyone I spoke with onsite was really nice, and I talked to over ten people. However, the recruiter was very unprofessional in the end.
She told me I would receive feedback and a result a day or two after my onsite, but she ended up not replying at all. I followed up and asked for any kind of feedback, and there was still no response.
I expected that I was rejected, but I at least hoped for an email or some form of communication.
Questions
Mostly programming questions.
The final question was more of a design question that grew more difficult as we progressed.
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Interview Statistics
The following metrics were computed from 24 interview experiences for the Databricks Software Engineer role in San Francisco, California.
Success Rate
Databricks's interview process for their Software Engineer roles in San Francisco, California is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.
Experience Rating
Candidates reported having negative feelings for Databricks's Software Engineer interview process in San Francisco, California.
Databricks Work Experiences
- 1.0Great Business, Terrible Place to WorkSoftware Engineer • Current EmployeeSan Francisco, California, United StatesMay 29, 2025Pros: The company as a whole is doing well, with good revenue numbers. The talent bar is generally pretty high, but it's not as good as it once was, and the company is starting to lose top talent.Cons: - Toxic management and terrible work-life balance. - Becoming increasingly political, which projects you get to work on, promotions, and performance reviews have been increasingly about who you know. - Within AI, there's constant project churn, changing roadmaps, and a lack of product vision, leading to very few successful products. - Substantially decreased refreshers and compensation recently, especially for those who have been there a long time. - Slow career growth and promotion timelines, and no longer with the increased pay to justify it. - No longer really innovating or doing anything interesting as a company. - Still no 401k.
- 5.0Great place to workSoftware Engineer • Current EmployeeSan Francisco, California, United StatesMay 6, 2023Pros: - Bright coworkers - Promising mission - Transparent leadershipCons: Work-life balance is not always the best. The company does not have QA, so engineers spend more time debugging.
- 5.0Great and interesting workSoftware Engineer • Former EmployeeSan Francisco, California, United StatesMay 11, 2023Pros: - Interesting work - Good benefits (meals)Cons: Can be overworked during crunch times.
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