RejectedOnsite

Cleared the Full Onsite, Then Rejected After a Messy Reference-Check Saga

DatabricksSoftware Engineer · Onsite · Jul 2026

Phone screen: system design — design a music playlist. The recruiter told me it would be a full-stack SD round with front-end code and everything, so I spent a long time brushing up on React, but it turned out to just be a normal SD round with no front-end content at all. My answer was pretty average. The interviewer seemed nice but looked exhausted the whole time — not sure if he was just overwo…

Shared by a candidate · reported Jul 2026. Interview formats change; use it as a guide, not a script.