Databricks Software Engineer interview questions

I would say by far the worst experience I've ever had. I was reached out by the recruiter to give a video technical screen. After clearing that, I had an interview with the hiring manager. Till here, everything was good. I was then called onsite. I had to commute to San Francisco for this interview. The HR greeted me and escorted me to a room. The first interview was with 2 people who got a laptop on which I was supposed to code. The coding task was ambiguous. They wanted me to code a problem in assembly language programming. Apparently this was to check how good a candidate is at picking up new skills. The interview went fine. It was followed by a cross-team interview which was conducted by a manager. All questions here were totally behavioral. This was followed by lunch. The guy came in, answered my questions, and left the room. After this, I ate my lunch and was waiting for the following 4 interviews to start which were all going to be technical interviews. It was 10 minutes past the interview start time, and nobody came to the room. I emailed the HR regarding this. After another 10 minutes, she came and told me that something in the product had BROKE, and all their engineering team is fixing it. So there is no one available to conduct the interview, and asked me to leave. I was told that they'll contact me to schedule part 2 of interviews. This behavior is totally unacceptable. If you dont want to conduct the interviews, atleast dont lie! Thats the worst thing a company could do. When a candidate walks in for an interview, the least thing you can do is to make the candidate feel comfortable. Nobody goes to an onsite interview to feel humiliated. My advice to the company: Please never do this to any other candidate. Also thinking too high about yourself and the company is bad. Best places and people are the ones who are humble.

TL;DR: I should have looked at the Glassdoor reviews before picking up the phone, don't waste your time here - many red flags about their culture. • Technical sourcer reached out to me for a role that sounded great (job description was for a specific role; written to be very inclusive and right up my alley and skillset). • Technical sourcer was slow to reply, finally scheduled a recruiter call. • Recruiter said she got double-booked and rescheduled the day before. • Recruiter was late to the call, and didn't apologize or acknowledge. • Recruiter was disorganized when on the call: asked what my background was even though she was looking at my resume or LinkedIn, said they weren't looking for non-traditional backgrounds. Had an extremely haughty and dismissive attitude around my abilities (I declined to mention that I have previously had a FAANG offer.) Asked what role I applied for (hello, your technical sourcer is the one that reached out - I didn't apply to anything.) • Recruiter then said they'd be happy to do a technical interview anyway, which they outsource to a third-party company. Ghosted anyway. From this and other reviews, seems like the technical sourcer and recruiters aren't aligned at all and are fairly disorganized. It also seems like the engineers there only care about finding people who wipe themselves with red-black trees in the morning, regardless of any other applicable skills, and have enough of a better-than-thou attitude that they can't be bothered to interview the people that they'd work with day-to-day. Like hires like - maybe 300 Leetcode hard problems are really relevant to their day-to-day job. Maybe they're secretly a thinktank for solving P vs. NP. But overall, I'd avoid unless that's the kind of culture you're looking for, or love wasting your time.