Databricks reviews

4.0

75% would recommend to a friend

(586 total reviews)
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Ali Ghodsi

91% approve of CEO

85% positive business outlook

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5.0
May 22, 2023
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Pros

Highly innovative and inclusive culture with brilliant, passionate people. High customer focus. High team focus - job titles don't get in the way of teams collaborating to drive outcomes.

Cons

Complex industry, takes time to ramp with long sales cycles.

5.0
May 21, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

The Databricks product, albeit very complex (even to onboard engineers) is one that top of class once learned. The improvements the company continues to make to compete against Snowflake and dominate the Lakehouse space combined with the new industry push into LLM AI learning integration makes this a wonderful company to learn and grow at.

Cons

The company is growing too fast while wanting to maintain it's "startup" identity and that is significantly diluting the culture and talent brought in.

1.0
May 16, 2023
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Pros

Comp was OK Equity Good tech

Cons

Micromanagement and not all all empowering. Things seem to move very slowly because of the level of micromanagement. Layoffs and no support or concern at all for those that were impacted. Very much a “this is how we do it here” culture which was surprising for a disruptive tech company. Goals and objectives not clearly defined, so you don’t know what to focus on. Apparent favoritism for those that have relationships with leadership. Many layers of management for a company of this size.

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