Software Engineer Intern applicants have rated the interview process at Databricks with 3.4 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 42% positive. To compare, the company-average is 47.6% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer Intern roles take an average of 17 days to get hired, when considering 24 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 Software Engineer Intern according to 24 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 29%
One on one interview: 26%
Skills test: 19%
Presentation: 10%
Other: 6%
IQ intelligence test: 3%
Background check: 3%
Group panel interview: 3%
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I applied online. I interviewed at Databricks (Bellevue, WA) in Oct 2025
Interview
No online assessment, straight to first round.
First round was recruiter call going over resume and availability.
Two back-to-back interviews, one is an algorithm-based interview, and the other is a pure technical.
Received third tie-breaker interview due to technical being poor.
Rejected after 3rd interview.
After passing 2 technical rounds, last round is hiring manager for team matching.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Why Databricks and resume related questions for behavioral tech screen.
Superday was 2 LC-medium OOP related questions, and a third tie-breaker was also OOP. All related to class design and proper coding practice.
Recruiter reached out + brief recruiter call. First round was 2 technical questions; one was leetcode and one was an implementation question where you had to write your own test cases. Final round was a behavioral with hiring manager where they asked about my previous experiences.
I applied online. I interviewed at Databricks (Belgrade, Central Serbia) in Jan 2026
Interview
there were 2 stages: coding and algorithms. in coding i had to write methods and tests for a LazyArray, in agorithms there was a problem where i had to use set(i was writing in c++) but the interviewer asked me how else could i implement the code with all possble data structres, array, heap etc and analyse runtime of these alternative solutions
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Databricks (Belgrade, Central Serbia) in Jan 2026
Interview
First, there was a brief HR interview 15-30min. The recruiter explains the whole hiring process, which consists of 4 interviews, including this one.
The second and third interviews were on algorithms and data structures, and on system design.