benhe4829May 25, 2026
Databricks rejection
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Databricks rejection
Result: Rejected Number of Rounds: 4
Coding rounds went fine. SD was the gap — they wanted deeper distributed systems depth than I had prepared. Rejection came about a week out.
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SD at Databricks goes deep on data pipeline architecture. What topic did they go into?
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Delta Lake reliability and distributed ingestion. I had the basics but not the depth they pushed for.
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What level were you interviewing for?
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Senior SWE.
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A week is pretty fast. Usually longer. Did they ghost or send an actual email?
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