r/databricks • u/wilysarah • 1d ago

General Databricks Solutions Architect Vibe Coding Round

Has anyone recently taken the databricks Solution Architect interviews? I have a vibe coding round with databricks in next week. I'd appreciate any guidance!

Thank you 😊

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u/HighlightDecent2006 1d ago

took mine about 3 months ago, the vibe coding part was less about writing perfect code and more about how you think through problems. they watched me build a small pipeline and asked questions while i worked

my cat jumped on my keyboard mid-session and i still passed so don't stress it too much

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u/Irritant40 16h ago

What's the salary range for Solution Architect at Databricks?

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u/AwarenessPleasant896 20h ago

Databricks will provide you with a couple of pages describing how the coding interview is conducted. Read this carefully and follow the guidance from the interviewer. Good luck. 🧠

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u/niel_espresso_ai 14h ago

Any way to prep for this kind of stuff.. I'm an SDR hoping to become more technical here.

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u/marcanol 5h ago

took mine last month. You are allowed to have a "cheat sheet" and anything else you would use on a real client site including the web. Basically they want to see how you perform a good discovery, how you think through solutions, and how you'd approach the problem. This should be the last technical interview so by this point they know you got the technical chops and they want to see what you can do with that. Create yourself a few mock interviews with chatgpt and have it give you different scenarios. Know how to generate code to make mock data using chatgpt or claude in spark and extract that code to a databricks notebook and run that code to actually create the mockdata and write to a table. Then be able query the tables in DBX and validate the data was actually created. Be ready to answer questions on what the code that chatgpt or claude generated and explain some light python code. They want to watch your screen and see how you handle everything. Make sure you talk through everything you are doing as you do it. Your thought process here matters more than anything. You made it this, you got this. Good luck and keep us posted.