SWE Intern applicants have rated the interview process at Databricks with 3.6 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 50% positive. To compare, the company-average is 47.6% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for SWE Intern roles take an average of 31 days to get hired, when considering 14 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Databricks overall takes an average of 35 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Databricks as a SWE Intern according to 14 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 38%
One on one interview: 38%
Skills test: 23%
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HR screen: standard behavioral questions, advised to solve leetcode hards to prepare for the technical stage
Technical 1: Leetcode hard (most difficult technical interview I've ever taken, even compared to FAANG internships - be prepared to solve and optimize a leetcode hard)
Technical 2: DSA and optimization (medium level, focused on complexity and efficiency, Pretty standard data structures/algorithms question with some reasoning and optimization + logic walkthrough)
The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Databricks (Mountain View, CA) in Oct 2025
Interview
Went straight into 2x 1 hour round coding interviews followed by a 45 minute behavioral interview with the hiring manager. Coding questions were standard OOP design and LC questions. Interviewers were all very nice and helpful during the process.
Recruiter reached out, scheduled call, then phone scree, 2 techs , 1 sys design, debugging, manager round., total 5. LC question, lc tagged helps so do that i guess, and learn around those concepts and patterns would be helpful,