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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2K reviews
2.0
Sep 6, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

There are plenty of smart individuals at the company that provide challenging yet rewarding work that will help you learn in your career. Such work experience they provide can be transitioned to other companies should you decide to make a switch. Also, at least before COVID-19, the company serves free lunch and Happy Hour Fridays, which helps improve morale while helping employees save on food costs.

Cons

Unprofessional managers will wear everybody down. However, the company either doesn't care or are too gun shy to solve these issues. I know of several people who either quit/considering quitting due to unprofessional managers or are refusing to work with these managers. There are unprofessional managers in every department, including finance, sales, and engineering. In addition, there is pressure from managers to work insane hours, hence the low amount of WLB for employees. Unfortunately, this leads to burned out employees, who in turn are less productive and less efficient.

2.0
Jan 7, 2020

A lot of talk without walking the walk

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The company is growing like crazy.

Cons

Party lines give cover to poor, sometimes sketchy practices. Management touts innovation, hiding behind the image of cutting-edge technology while embracing politics, towing the line even when unethical. Cool technology only goes so far when you realize the people responsible for our continued growth are overly invested in broken practices. It may be worth it to ride the rest of this immediate wave but there are regular patterns of behavior that point to Databricks being a poor long-term time investment.

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1.0
Feb 13, 2025

Toxic culture & poor leadership

Recommend
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Pros

Welcome to the “rocketship”. Great people, free lunch

Cons

Managers and leadership are not incentivized to promote. Extremely difficult, convoluted, and not transparent performance cycles. You are fully in charge of your own growth and will not be encouraged to develop. Few learning opportunities when everything is urgent and a fire drill. Many managers should not be people managers.

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