Databricks reviews

4.0

76% would recommend to a friend

(1,620 total reviews)
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Ali Ghodsi

91% approve of CEO

84% positive business outlook

Databricks has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 1,620 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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2K reviews
1.0
Sep 10, 2024

Not what it used to be

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Pros

The pay and benefits are decent.

Cons

I have been at Databricks for 4 years. In the last 2, the culture has dramatically shifted. We used to be customer obsessed and emphasized radical candor. With the influx of Salesforce, AWS and Google employees in the last 2 years, leadership has allowed the culture to morph into a paranoid and clueless mess. Sales has bullied field engineering into doing insane, unsustainable amounts of work because they fail to upskill their own hires. Instead, there is an over reliance on the SA where you're expected to serve as customer support, strategic support, technical experts, sales process drivers, mentors, and know everything that's happening with every use case. By the way, why is there no update to this use case you updated last week? Expect back to back meetings where you're running the calls, and then spend your nights and weekends researching the answers to the hundreds of questions you receive from customers and leadership. Good luck getting a bathroom break in between! Sales has become dumb bullies, constantly asking for the same updates, getting upset at SA's for setting boundaries , and the constant micromanaging. They have truly ruined the culture and all that was good at this role.

1.0
Nov 5, 2021

Once Good Culture - Now Extremely Toxic

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Pros

Extremely Great Product - Best in Class by far - Some truly excellent talent works here.

Cons

I've never been one to use the term "toxic", but the work environment has become extremely toxic and hostile. They replaced an entire leadership chain with external leadership and they brought along a very toxic culture along with their own set of sub-leaders. The culture has changed dramatically. I've also never used the term micro-aggressions before, but my day is filled with head scratching passive aggressiveness. I finish work sometimes feeling completely shell shocked. Work used to be a passion, now it's just work.

1.0
Nov 29, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

1. Great technology that works and customers love. 2. Fast home grown innovation as well as strategic acquisitions paving the way for growth. 3. Founders are still some of the hardest working people in the company and always on the road creating awareness and building relationships with C-level executives and board members.

Cons

1. Definitely suffering from a good ol boys club mentality promoted by VPs and up that came from the failed Cloudera & Hortonworks Hadoop experiment. Witnessed first hand where a teammate's best account was in a contract stage but was given to VPs friends that they have brought in from other companies. Also best accounts and territories go to folks who have been there for a long time and are favored. 2. OTE packages are deceiving and territories are painted as fruitful. Most reps are living off of purely base salaries and unrecoverable and recoverable draws. They have massively over hired to try to match boots on the ground to Snowflake and territories continue to shrink. Many of us have gone from 50-80 accounts to 2-3 and top performing accounts get shifted to favored reps. 3. Unattainable quotas - They change quotas at every 6 months and the majority can't come close to hit targets. Many reps have voiced their concern for over a year, nothing improves, people leave. Leadership seems happy with just squeezing little drops of the lemon accounts that are left. 4. Micro-managing, unrealistic metrics, and selling desperation increasing. This is starting to show at customer meetings where we haven't earn the technical win yet but we are already asking for multi-year commitment. Starting to track number of emails, calls, sales meetings, event registrations, and many more salesforce field requirements distracting reps from doing real strategic selling. 5. The culture is great in small pockets like Partner Alliance teams or those lucky enough to join activities at a near by office. Nobody really knows each other, what motivates them, or offer opportunities for team bonding, cross training, or up-skilling.

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