Databricks reviews

4.0

76% would recommend to a friend

(1,633 total reviews)
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Ali Ghodsi

91% approve of CEO

85% positive business outlook

Databricks has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 1,633 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
5.0
Jun 8, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Smart colleagues, open communication from executives, transparency from executives, growth opportunities

Cons

Growing pains, which is to be expected

3.0
Jun 7, 2022

No longer a startup

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Their product portfolio is respectable and keeps growing. The company has plenty of money to keep the engineering teams as busy as possible. The overall business strategy is sound and Databricks now enjoys a solid presence in the cloud analytics space.

Cons

They claim they're still a startup and talk about values during the kickoff events, but the reality on the ground is that they now have all the toxicity of a large, cut-throat corporation. Sucking up to managers and adhering to their politics can be the only way to get promoted and recognized. Once a company gets off-track on meritocracy, it's hard to feel motivated to stay. Better move on. Constant management shuffling and reshuffling brings in new people with zero history and sometimes zero interest in understanding what happened before them, so they try to reinvent the wheel and force their ideas down other people's throats.

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