Skip to contentSkip to footer
      employer cover photo
      employer logo
      employer logo

      Databricks

      Engaged Employer

      Databricks reviews

      4.0

      76% would recommend to a friend

      (1,623 total reviews)
      avatar

      Ali Ghodsi

      91% approve of CEO

      85% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      4.2

      Compensation and benefits

      3.9

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.9

      Career opportunities

      3.8

      Culture & values

      3.7

      Senior management

      3.4

      Work/Life balance

      Databricks has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 1,623 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).

      Ratings by demographic groups

      Reviews by job title

      2K reviews
      5.0
      Nov 4, 2020

      Enjoying our growing business in the initial stage

      Business development executive
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      You can spend your time for the beginning of the future Unicorn/Major company here at Databricks. You might learn how Databricks break through many traditional things/existing processes with our new ideas with our partners. You can also feel you , our company and our partner work together closely and realize our customer's success seriously.

      Cons

      We need to develop many things, including Sales guidelines/local rules, processes for multi-language support, organizations etc. If you want to follow those things, you can understand some of them might not exist in our company today and you need to build it. However, it will be valuable for you to leverage your experiences to our company in order to improve Databricks anyway.

      2.0
      Nov 4, 2020

      Pockets of toxicity - eventually it will poison the rest

      Operations
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Pay well esp if youre an engineer The company is doing well financially, sales of product are strong Theres enough rah rah to attract good people, but I'm sure many won't be able to put up with the mess inside for long...

      Cons

      Basically everything else. Databricks is trying to grow up without a plan of how to do so well, and it's an extremely painful process to be a part of. The CEO still insists on being deeply involved in every decision no matter how minuscule which equates to disempowering any other employee below him (that means everyone). Change initiatives are so incredibly slow and often derailed at the 11th hour bc of some nit picky detail from the CEO or CFO demands even though its outside of their domain, clearly they don't trust anyone else to be the experts which makes everyone else basicaly minions to what is being dictated to them. Why hire senior people and pay them tons of cash if you don't trust them to do their job? Also, any of the teams outside of Eng and Sales are so understaffed (yet expectations/OKRs etc are not created to consider that) and so therefore teams are set-up to fail. There are no career paths, no recognition unless you're in engineering and pretty poor benefits if you're not employed in the US. Sorry non-US people, you'll be forgotten and HQ can easily look away so they don't actually have to address the problems. I don't really think they know how and won't admit it so you'll either be told for years that "it's being worked on" with no result or your problems will be completely dismissed bc the US has no empathy for international teams. Also, expect to get meeting invites in the middle of the night, for hiring so many smart people, not sure why they forget about a thing called time zones...

      avatar
      Databricks Response
      5y
      Thank you for sharing your feedback. We are very sorry to hear about your experience. There are multiple initiatives going on to continually improve our internal processes as we scale as well as invest in our global benefit programs. We hope that this should help improve some of the items you mentioned, as creating a positive and consistent employee experience is a top priority at Databricks. We are always open to feedback and looking for ways to improve. Please feel free to contact me directly if you would like to provide any additional feedback.
      5.0
      Nov 3, 2020

      One of the best startups to be a part of.

      Resident solutions architect
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      * Outstanding culture, even with WFH * Management communication is frequent and transparent. It's refreshing. * Excellent long-term outlook for the company * Competitive comp and benefits * Work with incredibly intelligent and passionate coworkers

      Cons

      * Lack of clarity on IPO timeline (expected, somewhat) * Growing pains coming with the startup => public company * No 401k match

      Viewing 1495 - 1497 of 1,623 Reviews
      Related searches: Databricks jobs | Databricks salaries | Databricks benefits | Databricks interviews | Databricks conversations
      ReviewsDatabricks reviews

      Glassdoor has 1,765 Databricks reviews submitted anonymously by Databricks employees. Read employee reviews and ratings on Glassdoor to decide if Databricks is right for you.