Brilliant Team, Rto Pain
Brilliant Team, Rto Pain
The people are by far the best engineers I've ever had the pleasure of working with. Think of the best person on your team, and they are merely average at Databricks. The work is fun, and the pay is top-notch.
Bait and switch on RTO, now requires 3 days per week with badge tracking.
Hours can get intense approaching releases.
There is an elitist vibe at the company, where the engineers think they are the best and look down on other companies. Been laid off? Don't bother applying, as you will be pre-filtered. Any roles lasting shorter than 2 years? Be prepared to have pristine references.
Old boys club; any change that impacts user-facing surface area, expect to need L8 approval from your Uber-TL and whoever at the company is the gatekeeper. There is a definite in and out crowd, highly correlated with tenure and seniority.
Trust your teams. Not every major decision needs to go through Ali.
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Was referred by a Databricks employee. * Initial 30-minute recruiter call * System design technical phone interview * Onsite full loop interview (did not get to that; was rejected after the phone interview)
Staff Software Engineer
The interview process was well-organized and sensible. On-site was heavily organized around systems design, a really reasonable (& interesting) programming problem, and collaboration and behavioral effectiveness. The offer was presented very prompt
Staff Software Engineer
I applied online and was contacted by a recruiter. The first step was a 30-minute phone call with the recruiter, where we discussed my experience and the company. The next round was a 1-hour phone screen, which was a system design interview.
Staff Software Engineer
San Francisco, California, United StatesApril 1, 2025Was referred by a Databricks employee. * Initial 30-minute recruiter call * System design technical phone interview * Onsite full loop interview (did not get to that; was rejected after the phone interview)
Staff Software Engineer
United StatesApril 8, 2022The interview process was well-organized and sensible. On-site was heavily organized around systems design, a really reasonable (& interesting) programming problem, and collaboration and behavioral effectiveness. The offer was presented very prompt
Staff Software Engineer
United StatesFebruary 1, 2022I applied online and was contacted by a recruiter. The first step was a 30-minute phone call with the recruiter, where we discussed my experience and the company. The next round was a 1-hour phone screen, which was a system design interview.
