Databricks reviews

4.0

76% would recommend to a friend

(1,623 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 1,623 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).

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5.0
Aug 31, 2021

Exciting environment that is fast pace and rewarding.

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Pros

Great onboarding process, lots of transparency from leadership, and great/collaboration teams.

Cons

The work/life balance is not quite there yet since this company is growing so quick. There are times where you'll be expected to work outside of business hours.

4.0
Jan 24, 2021

Ride the rollercoaster

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Pros

Working at Databricks can be some of the most rewarding work of your career. With the ability to really make a difference to the success of the company and also to helping customers change the world. The people are good people with a true focus on doing what's right by each other and the customer.

Cons

It's really hard work and it can be frustrating as we find our way. If you're not driven to figure things out for yourself and readily pivot to a new way of thinking regularly, then you would find working here a challenge.

5.0
Dec 5, 2020
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Pros

-Great leadership. Management is highly invested in the development of the individual. -Culture is strong. The company is not only selective in hiring, but hollistic as well in its approach. The result is the people you get to work with are not just smart, but also incredible people. I find myself humbled everyday by the calibre of my colleagues. -Market potential is astronomical and leadership is making all the right moves to capture it. The company is unquestionably a thought leader in the space, and it's great to see us actively innovating the product to both augment our TAM as we encroach on the traditional DW space, and continue to innovate our bread and butter AI/data science and core infrastructure offerings. As a sales person this is the dream - getting to sell a world-class product. -Every company can always improve diversity, but Databricks is by far the most diverse company I've ever worked with. They take DEI seriously. -Sales culture specifically is incredible. Not the typical frat house sales culture you often see in tech sales.

Cons

-the classic hypergrowth startup pains, processes are a bit wonky, etc. Leadership is keenly aware of it though and working to remedy. Issues that happen as a result of this get fixed quickly once you raise it. -product has historically catered to data scientists, and as such is quite complex. As we broaden the scope of our market, and clash with DW players like Snowflake, we need to continue to simplify our product/messaging to cater to non-technical executives and analyst personas.

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