Databricks Senior Data Scientist interview questions
based on 3 ratings - Updated 25 Jul 2025
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I applied through a recruiter. The process took 5 months. I interviewed at Databricks (Hyderābād)
Interview
A total of 6 rounds covering topics like understanding your work, completing a take home assignment, Data Science Fundamentals, ML/AI fundamentals, System design and behavioral questions.
Everything went well and cleared everything. Positive interactions with interview panel and recruiter, but no offer after dragging me along for 4-5 months with constant feedback like "you did well, it's just stuck at XYZ. Sit tight" and "you did well, but you lack XYZ, therefore we are interviewing more people"
Should've known better and walked away emotionally at that stage. However, I really liked the team, the way they communicated, really felt like a collaborative effort. I prepared to the best of my abilities and worked really hard, but I walked away with empty promises and just an complete disrespect of my time and value.
If after 6 rounds and 4-5 months, you still cannot trust your own interview process, so much so that you're still looking for someone to fill in for that role as of writing this, maybe you should first fix your process before you begin "expanding in India" You guys couldn't even send a formal rejection and resorted to ghosting after you explicitly stated that you don't ghost in multiple occasions? Real low.
Interview experience - 5/5 because of the people on the interview panel, recruiter and the amazing nature of work that I could infer from talking to them.
Company outlook - 0/5 since you don't even know what you're looking for. Rejection was never a problem, just the way you did it was.
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Question 1
Usual behavioral questions.
Do not overlook data science fundamentals like precision, recall, sensitivity, specificity, etc.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Databricks (Los Angeles, CA) in Mar 2025
Interview
The interview process is very long with many technical rounds and a take home assignment. Everyone was nice but the interviews were definitely on the more difficult side. Starts with a hiring manager interview, then a technical interview on your background. Then there is a take home coding assignment, virtual onsite, and 3 more technical rounds. And then a wrap up and then you get to the offer stage
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Question 1
Explain the transformer architecture and each of the components.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 days. I interviewed at Databricks in Jul 2020
Interview
Databricks *reached out to me* on LinkedIn, unsolicited.
2 attempts at arranging an initial phone screen later (internal recruiter slow to respond to my reply initially, then he didn't bother responding to my final message with new proposed times to speak with them), I gave up.
Great that all their VC funding is financing their internal recruiters to burn their time wasting mine.