Good Company, Bad Career Development for SDRs - Sales Development Representative (SDR) Databricks Employee Review

2.0
Dec 29, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Every time anyone says something about databricks they start out by saying how awesome it is. Awesome product, awesome CEO, awesome space, awesome co-workers, awesome clients, delicious kool-aid. It is a fantastic company with a pretty solid future ahead of it, if lake house is what they think. This company has to avoid being the next Cloudera

Cons

SDR work is broken. Other parts of the sales team and company are really solid One month, someone blew the quota out of the water and everyone's job got way harder overnight. What the heck! Apparently, a huge part of a sales development leader’s task is continually justifying the general existence of the SDR team as a whole. Not such a bad thing to get caught up in if you're learning and getting promoted, but nobody is. Join this company as an SDR if you want to be a stowaway on the rocket ship. You constantly overhear your manager defending your value to the captain, but you don’t really believe what they’re saying.

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Databricks Response
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Thank you for taking the time to provide feedback. The Sales Development organization is a critical team within Databricks and we are working on additional initiatives to ensure there are clear career development opportunities available for the team. We are always looking to improve, and feedback from our employees helps us continue to create an environment where all employees feel valued and heard. If you are open to discussing further, please feel free to contact me directly.

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