While my recruiter was quite late for the interview, I let him know that it was fine. During our conversation, I felt zero passion from him, and felt like he had a really long day, and that he could not wait for the day to be over. I could understand that because recruiting tasks could become repetitive. Before the interview, I blocked out 30 minutes to study about the company mission, goals, values and products. During the interview, I mentioned Free Trial from Databricks. The recruiter immediately stopped me and let me know that Databricks did not offer any Free Trail. It was right in front of my computer on the top right saying Free Trial. Finally, he was very determined to ask for my compensation expectation. While I initially let him know that my compensation is negotiable and I would prefer talking about that later on during the interview process, he demanded to know about my expectation right now. After the interview, he advised me the next step was to transfer my profile to the hiring managers, and none of them reach out to me. I followed up with him a couple times and received no response back from him, as well as his recruiting partner, and the hiring managers. I was very shocked for a couple reasons: 1) Databricks was name the best place to work for. Unfortunately, it was not the case through my interview experience. 2) I did my research on the recruiter and it seems that he is a very experienced recruiters with more than 10 years into the field in various industries with top tier companies. I expected a level of professionalism, enthusiasm, and transparency from his rich background, but he failed to deliver. 3. As a high performing selling team, sales leaders often understand how important to receive feedback from their prospects, in addition to knowing about their buying decision. Sales people sometimes get frustrated not hearing back from their customers, even though they spent a great amount of time working out the deal. Yet, Databricks sales team failed to deliver the level of transparency to its candidates, leaving them with frustration, disappointment, and skepticism. I hope that Databricks will invest more into recruiting team and understand how vital they are to the success of the organization. Talents run away from bad recruiters even though it might be a "best place to work" company, and they might never ever want to go back. What differentiate an outstanding recruiter from others is his/her ability to empower the candidates with great experience regardless of moving forward or not. They do so by providing honest feedback, alternative positions (which translates to opportunities), as well as keeping the candidates in the loop with any updates. I wish this recruiter the best in his future recruiting career, and wish Databicks a very successful year.