My interview process lasted four months. I interviewed with 12 different people, did a take-home coding test, and prepared and presented a mock sales presentation - and then got ghosted. In that time I had two different hiring managers tell me that they were expecting to make an offer so we discussed compensation and start dates and they called my references (including references I didn't provide - I know because someone who I didn't list as a reference told me they got called multiple times), and then changed their mind and passed me off to a different hiring manager who they thought was a better fit, but who made me start the process over again. Every interviewer acted like they had no notes and were interviewing a brand new candidate, so there was not much depth to any of the interviews. Some of the interviewers needed some training (one spent a lot of the interview asking if I could help their kid get a job at the place I currently work), but for the most part I really connected with several of the interviewers and felt like they were individually strong and would make strong teammates. It was just the process itself that felt completely disorganized. I eventually gave some feedback to the recruiter who I had been working with the whole time. I told him that I was still super excited about Databricks and the role, still enjoying all of the people that I was meeting, but that I felt like I was re-explaining the same background to every interviewer - so I was excited to start a new process with yet another team, but it would save us both time if that team could start with some of the notes from some of the other interviewers that I had met with previously. He never called me back after that.

Multiple rounds of interview , take home assessment was not very tough . But panel presentation round was tough , it seems they want candidate who can wow them even though all rounds went fine .