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4.0

75% would recommend to a friend

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Ali Ghodsi

91% approve of CEO

85% positive business outlook

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5.0
Apr 4, 2023
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Pros

Culture -- top-to-bottom, people are collaborative and results-oriented. Innovative -- the company vision of being the best data-and-ai platform and The Lakehouse requires continuous innovation. Leadership are future-focused and execute in a measured yet ambitious manner with enough urgency to keep raising the bar while simultaneously sustaining high morale. Learning -- as a technologist, I am always learning. The platform has many aspects and is continuously evolving, so learning opportunities arise regularly. Rewarding -- Helping clients is rewarding and feels like a genuine win-win as clients increase their platform usage. Compensation and non-monetary rewards are nice too. C-suite -- it maintains its scrappy ambitiousness that helps fuel a great startup culture. Meanwhile, they are true professionals and are fact-driven, leveraging data to guide decisions and adjust strategy.

Cons

Too many enticing things to learn or explore on the platform.

4.0
Apr 4, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

The employees and teams at Databricks genuinely work together and collaborate. There are no pointing fingers of "that's someone else's job", which I really appreciate. Everyone is willing to jump in and work as a team. Employees here are extremely talented, and it's a very transparent culture as well.

Cons

Work-life balance could definitely be improved. There is a culture of grind, grind, grind. There also can be an expectation of meetings during your evenings, and being responsive after working hours. You absolutely have to make personal boundaries, or you will end up taking calls outside of working hours. I do wish this would be encouraged and modeled from the top layers of leadership, as they do these things and don't encourage others not to work after hours. Ideally, model PTO, model taking care of yourself, and when others are sick let them take the day, rather than sending a Slack message saying I'm sorry you're sick, can you help me with this?

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