I'm a product/brand designer with 8 years of experience and I went through the Databricks design interview last spring for a senior IC product designer role. Posting this because design interview content for B2B data companies is weirdly sparse.
The short version: they take design seriously but the audience is technical and you need to respect that in how you present your work.
Recruiter and HM screen: Two calls before any portfolio review. They spend a lot of time here understanding your background with complex information architecture and data visualization. If you've worked on dashboards, developer tools, or enterprise products, lead with that. Consumer apps are fine but translate them to the B2B context explicitly.
Portfolio review (90 min): This was with two PMs and a senior engineer in addition to two designers. Not unusual for Databricks. The engineer asked the best questions. He pushed hard on how I knew a design decision was the right one, whether I tested alternatives, how I handled conflicting feedback from different stakeholders.
Two big things I noticed: They want to see that you collaborated deeply with engineering, not just handed off specs. Show your edge cases documentation, your design-engineering sync notes, something that shows you understand implementation constraints. Case studies should be problem-first. Don't start with "here's the beautiful UI." Start with "here's the mess we were given and here's how we defined what success looked like."
Design exercise (take-home): 48 hours to redesign a specific flow in their notebook product. Clear scope. I treated it like a real project: user problem framing, 3 concepts at wireframe fidelity, one pushed to higher fidelity with interaction notes. They're looking for judgment and clarity of thinking.
Behavioral: Very similar to SWE behavioral. Collaboration, ambiguity, getting alignment without authority. Have 4-5 real stories ready.
One honest note: Databricks is still maturing on the design side. There's a lot of opportunity but also a fair amount of "design comes in at the end of a sprint" energy that you'll need to be comfortable pushing back on.