Databricks reviews

4.0

77% would recommend to a friend

(1,622 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 1,622 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 (3.7 stars).

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3.0
May 9, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Amazing product, intellectual teammates, and good internal tools. Ali is a great vision setter and has a strategic direction for the company to go public, which does benefit everyone! Customers included. We love our customers and they're some of the best and most talented data and AI professionals in the WORLD. It's clear how we're helping modernize the future.

Cons

The sales career growth here is a 50/50 gamble. The directors especially are nepotistic - they promote favorites, not results. Reps know who's getting promotions before they're even posted. It creates an us vs. them divide. VPs are clueless on career dev. Directors string reps along endlessly with empty promises of "the next opportunity." They're manipulative masters at killing morale. Managers are kept in the dark on promo paths, causing rep vs. manager conflicts. If you're early career, run DON'T walk when they dangle "growth." Look at how many burnt out SDRs/BDRs quit after 2 years despite hitting targets. Their latest trick is the "Growth Development" role - that's not what we meant by career growth... we're not dumb. it's just a rebranded BDR role setting meetings. They pay BDR salary while calling it an AE role. Corporate manipulation to get cheap leads. For external interviews, push them on how they actually handle reps who don't get promotions. They'll give you the token success story, but it's BS. It's a coin flip whether you'll legitimately grow or just get strung along indefinitely. After reading, is that how you'd imagine the best Data and AI company in the world to act? This manipulation might have worked for the Directors at their old orgs back in the early 2000's, there's more data to back the nepotism now.

3.0
Feb 23, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- The company is truly passionate about being the data and machine learning platform of choice for customers - Colleagues are incredibly smart and come from great backgrounds - Growth and user adoption are off the charts. The company makes major strategic anniuncements periodically. - It's still small enough to connect and learn from multiple groups

Cons

- A culture of favoritism and blame. Good work may go unnoticed but any slipups, even minor ones, lead to multiple stakeholders punishing you - Bloated middle management. Shockingly high number of hires in the mid/senior leadership tiers without filling important frontline positions - Everything is due yesterday and the myopic working style means systems are inadequate, overburdened and come with a high human cost

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Databricks Response
5y
Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback. It is important to us to create an environment where all employees feel valued and empowered to do their best work. As we continue to invest in leadership development programs, we hope that this will help with some of the feedback mentioned. We are always looking to improve, and would love to hear more about your experience. Please feel free to contact me directly if you would like to provide any additional feedback.
2.0
Dec 2, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The people there are great with top c-level execs encouraging teamwork in both intra-department and inter-department situations. Also it's very hard to not learn new things while there assuming that you are working with the right people.

Cons

If this was a year ago, no doubt this will be a 5-star review. However due to rapid company growth, the culture has gone downward due to politics. Several managers and directors are uninterested in doing what is best for the company. Instead they only do what will make themselves look good in the eyes of top executives in the short run. This results in blame culture as several good people leave or remain unhappy there. One example is my customer success manager before I left the company. The previous one I had was great as he was professional. However, the new one is cocky and arrogant. Even though I never missed SLA benchmarks, the new manager always gives the top assignments to the men he is closest with, several of whom has less experience than I do and haven't been there as long as I have . This is nothing more than a boys club. Another example is the order management director Chris. If something goes wrong, he doesn't take responsibility for his work and blames others. He badmouthed several of his own colleagues and people he managed. He belittled the VP of Sales Operations. He blamed the IT department for some of his shortcomings. I found him impossible to work with as he acts like a professional victim. I can go on and on and on regarding other examples of managers who play politics instead of working but that will take too much time. I will say that this kind of politics happens in every department (IT, sales, finance, customer success, engineering, etc.). So be forewarned.

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Databricks Response
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Thank you for taking the time to provide feedback. We are very sorry to hear about your experience and we value the feedback from all our employees. It is very important to us that we hire employees who continue to build our culture in a way that is true to our values, even as we scale. We are always looking to improve, and would love to discuss any other feedback you may have. If you are open to it, please feel free to contact me directly to talk further.
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