Databricks reviews

4.0

76% would recommend to a friend

(1,622 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 1,622 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 Tecnologías de la información industry (3.9 stars).

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3.0
May 9, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Amazing product, intellectual teammates, and good internal tools. Ali is a great vision setter and has a strategic direction for the company to go public, which does benefit everyone! Customers included. We love our customers and they're some of the best and most talented data and AI professionals in the WORLD. It's clear how we're helping modernize the future.

Cons

The sales career growth here is a 50/50 gamble. The directors especially are nepotistic - they promote favorites, not results. Reps know who's getting promotions before they're even posted. It creates an us vs. them divide. VPs are clueless on career dev. Directors string reps along endlessly with empty promises of "the next opportunity." They're manipulative masters at killing morale. Managers are kept in the dark on promo paths, causing rep vs. manager conflicts. If you're early career, run DON'T walk when they dangle "growth." Look at how many burnt out SDRs/BDRs quit after 2 years despite hitting targets. Their latest trick is the "Growth Development" role - that's not what we meant by career growth... we're not dumb. it's just a rebranded BDR role setting meetings. They pay BDR salary while calling it an AE role. Corporate manipulation to get cheap leads. For external interviews, push them on how they actually handle reps who don't get promotions. They'll give you the token success story, but it's BS. It's a coin flip whether you'll legitimately grow or just get strung along indefinitely. After reading, is that how you'd imagine the best Data and AI company in the world to act? This manipulation might have worked for the Directors at their old orgs back in the early 2000's, there's more data to back the nepotism now.

2.0
Feb 5, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

- Fast paced product releases - Good focus on creating an entrepreneurial spirit - Well funded, competitive pay

Cons

- Terrible culture (ANZ), no one is happy except the management team who want to cash out - There is no trust. All sales activity is tracked (calls, notes, meetings, outbounds, emails etc), however, these metrics are not important ... only sales - even at the cost of customer relationships and employee turnover. PIPs are handed out like lollies to some of the best reps in the region when they miss a target. - Sales success is with a few "lucky" individuals, the vast majority are not making their number and either looking for another job or waiting for the IPO payday. - Every manager pretends to want to help you, but the truth is, they have no ability to help their reports. They are powerless and hopeless.

2.0
Aug 12, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Heaps of learning. Loads of managers types Sales focused company

Cons

Not matured into service sector. Its a product company with strong US based engineering focus however their service division is handled by sales team. This creates conflict of interest when servicing customers. Service decisions and handling is done by AE. AE has no background of you as PS team member and more inclined to presales team. Presales team will put all their work to post sales. Ultimately if u r part of service team u ll end up doing job of everyone but even then ur name wont be counted since company is sales focussed and not service focussed. Join if u r part of presales else AVOID

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