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      Databricks

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      Databricks reviews

      4.0

      75% would recommend to a friend

      (1,633 total reviews)
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      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 1,633 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 22, 2016

      Hiring the shadiest people in the bay

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      The product brought me here. I like the direction of the company. I like the position for any type of open source era that we may be heading towards.

      Cons

      I'm really getting a bad feeling about this company with the people they hired on. No detailed check into their history/references. This is a tight nit community in the tech industry and word gets around fast. I don't know if management ignored any rumors or just didn't hear but probably too late. I have heard some of the people that have come here recently have been large contributors to declining cultures at their previous employers and have been jumping around from company to company very frequently.

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      Databricks Response
      9y
      Thank you for your feedback. We're sorry that you feel this way. One of our recruiting philosophies is to do our due diligence with anyone we hire. We evaluate each candidate thoroughly. Each candidate meets 4 or more Brick-sters and we require references from every candidate we extend an offer to. Being the start-up that we are, we understand our process is not bullet proof and we can get better. Unfortunately, we're going to have some misses as we develop and grow as a company. We will learn from our mistakes and do our best to not duplicate them.
      5.0
      Jul 1, 2016

      Reinventing big data processing

      Solutions architect
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      * Smart and dedicated team with great mix of academia/research and industry experience * Taking the best of research and converting it to industrial strength, secure, scalable product * Great dynamic start-up environment with wonderful perks/benefits in beautiful setting in downtown San Francisco (catered lunches, pool table, table tennis, free snacks, frequent presentations, team outings...) * Learn all about one of the hottest big data frameworks (Apache Spark) and the cloud-hosted managed Databricks Spark environment. Technologies: Apache Spark, AWS (e.g. S3, Redshift), big data processing/storage, machine learning, graph processing, streaming. Access to Databricks demo environment and AWS dev tier. * Solid product in high demand backed by well-known venture capitalists in tremendous growth mode but still good work-life balance. * Access to some great open source committers and thought leaders like Matei Zaharia, Michael Armbrust, Tathagata “TD” Das and Reynold Xin.

      Cons

      * If working remotely from East Coast: 3 hour time difference and long cross-country flight with less access to the company HQ culture in SF. I am leaving to join a great local software development firm with short commute and just being part of a wonderful team. If I lived or could relocate to SF, Databricks would be one of my top choices of employers and I can only recommend it.

      5.0
      May 8, 2016

      Supportive culture, smart team, passionate about open source, awesome business model.

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Smart engineers and business leaders, exciting technology, fast growing customer base

      Cons

      When everybody is smart and ambitious you can feel challenged and pushed to new limits

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      Databricks Response
      8y
      Thank you for your feedback. We're sorry that you feel this way. One of our recruiting philosophies is to do our due diligence with anyone we hire. We evaluate each candidate thoroughly. Each candidate meets 4 or more Brick-sters and we require references from every candidate we extend an offer to. Being the start-up that we are, we understand our process is not bullet proof and we can get better. Unfortunately, we're going to have some misses as we develop and grow as a company. We will learn from our mistakes and do our best to not duplicate them.
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