Databricks reviews

4.0

76% would recommend to a friend

(1,627 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 1,627 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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5.0
Feb 22, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Team-first attitude ensures that you always get the help you need. My colleagues are some of the smartest people I've ever worked with. I am constantly learning both technical skills and business acumen. The company invests in its people often hiring from within and providing leadership development opportunities for ICs wishing to transition to management positions. I feel recognized for the work I do and supported when I work on projects that may fall outside the strict definition of the job.

Cons

We're a big company now with small company problems. Our internal operational systems have not scaled with our growth. Still a lot of "institutional knowledge" from the field that needs to be better documented. High expectations for the company can create stressful stretches of time to meet ambitious goals. Programs are in place to address the lack of diversity but we still need to make way more progress to be a more diverse workplace.

5.0
Feb 21, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

- Work from home - Free lunch in office (SF office is stocked) - Provide excellent sales/product training - Opportunity to grow - Great managers - Great colleagues

Cons

- Still defining what clear success looks like for SDRs (S1, S2, S3) - Sales team is growing fast - often working with new AEs as they onboard and get to know the big data landscape - Great opportunity for those who can make it 1 year plus in this role, be ready to work

5.0
Feb 20, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

- great culture from CxO down to first line managers, and individual engineers - very open in communication - very easy to reach out to product, and engineering leadership, and get influence roadmap - you will be working with top customers S&P 500 list, state of the art cloud technology - very fast pace of innovation and product excellence on edge of Big Data and Machine Learning - ability to contribute not just to your projects you directly work on, but also through community work including, but not limited to meet ups, writing blog posts, contributing to open-source projects, helping our customers through public online communities, etc. Many departments have this formalized. For example, in Field Engineering, there is a "10x" and "Databricks Labs" venues for this that Solution Architects can work on their own projects - I believe in power of open source and Databricks is the best company that aligns with this. Most of the Databricks products we contribute back to open-source (Spark, Delta, MLFlow, to name a few)

Cons

- fast growth brings its own challenges, this is not applicable to all departments though, Databricks mostly grows by adding more departments and adding verticalization, so fast pace rarely is a bad thing here, except additional workload to help onboard new people

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