Databricks

Invited for an unsolicited application. Subsequently, a brief phone interview with an engineer from the team. During the interview, I was asked to answer a programming question, with the engineer live-monitoring my progress.

They want me to work on an assignment. After I spend 6 hours finishing this assignment, they sent me a reject letter. I think this is a waste of time.

1 tech screen, which is just some LeetCode problem -> virtual onsite (1 LeetCode-style problem, 1 coding/implementation, 1 architecture/system design, 1 behavioral). Overall, wouldn't say it was that difficult besides system design, which I haven't