Databricks Reviews

4.0

76% would recommend to a friend

(1,617 total reviews)
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Ali Ghodsi

91% approve of CEO

84% positive business outlook

Databricks has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 1,617 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Databricks employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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1.0
20 Jan 2022
Recommend
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Pros

The technical people are advanced in their skill sets

Cons

Sales in Databricks are seen as "Top Dogs" who essentially can get away with anything. For example, I saw rudeness/aggression/intimidation to databricks customer partners and nothing was done about it. There was also bullying from Sales Leads (AE's) and not only will you get no support, but you will be blamed for any issues. Working here affected my mental health badly - the manipulation and narrative particular protected people strung was infuriating. Micromanagement was a daily hassle, so was diary snooping and so evidencing an obvious lack of trust and suspicion between AEs, senior management and field engineers / SAs.

2.0
4 Nov 2020
Recommend
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Pros

Pay well esp if youre an engineer The company is doing well financially, sales of product are strong Theres enough rah rah to attract good people, but I'm sure many won't be able to put up with the mess inside for long...

Cons

Basically everything else. Databricks is trying to grow up without a plan of how to do so well, and it's an extremely painful process to be a part of. The CEO still insists on being deeply involved in every decision no matter how minuscule which equates to disempowering any other employee below him (that means everyone). Change initiatives are so incredibly slow and often derailed at the 11th hour bc of some nit picky detail from the CEO or CFO demands even though its outside of their domain, clearly they don't trust anyone else to be the experts which makes everyone else basicaly minions to what is being dictated to them. Why hire senior people and pay them tons of cash if you don't trust them to do their job? Also, any of the teams outside of Eng and Sales are so understaffed (yet expectations/OKRs etc are not created to consider that) and so therefore teams are set-up to fail. There are no career paths, no recognition unless you're in engineering and pretty poor benefits if you're not employed in the US. Sorry non-US people, you'll be forgotten and HQ can easily look away so they don't actually have to address the problems. I don't really think they know how and won't admit it so you'll either be told for years that "it's being worked on" with no result or your problems will be completely dismissed bc the US has no empathy for international teams. Also, expect to get meeting invites in the middle of the night, for hiring so many smart people, not sure why they forget about a thing called time zones...

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Databricks Response
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Thank you for sharing your feedback. We are very sorry to hear about your experience. There are multiple initiatives going on to continually improve our internal processes as we scale as well as invest in our global benefit programs. We hope that this should help improve some of the items you mentioned, as creating a positive and consistent employee experience is a top priority at Databricks. We are always open to feedback and looking for ways to improve. Please feel free to contact me directly if you would like to provide any additional feedback.
1.0
4 Jan 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Great product and technology - Fast growing company - Good long term company vision

Cons

- No work life balance. Long working hours benefiting for your upper management more than yourself - No carreer opportunities, double standards when it comes to promotion or salary increase - Toxic and cliques culture

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