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Engineering Interviews — A Hiring Manager's Guide to Standing Out

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Ask any engineering leader at a growth stage company what their top priority is, and they’ll likely say hiring. When we think about how big a decision taking a job is for both the company and candidate, the few hours of interviews seems pretty short. We want to make sure our job interview process makes the most of that time to help both candidates and Databricks understand if the role is a good fit. We want to learn about you and make sure you get the information you need to make the best decision. One of the best ways to do this is to design interviews that emphasize conversation and collaboration. Real world problems are messy and complex. We want to understand how candidates solve abstract challenges more than we want to see a specific solution. Despite the scale of infrastructure Databricks operates, we have a relatively small engineering organization. We operate millions of virtual machines, generating terabytes of logs and processing exabytes of data per day. At our scale, we reg

Engineering Interviews — A Hiring Manager's Guide to Standing Out Skip to main content Ask any engineering leader at a growth stage company what their top priority is, and they’ll likely say hiring. When we think about how big a decision taking a job is for both the company and candidate, the few hours of interviews seems pretty short. We want to make sure our job interview process makes the most of that time to help both candidates and Databricks understand if the role is a good fit. We want to learn about you and make sure you get the information you need to make the best decision. One of th

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