Pros: The hiring bar is extremely high, so the people are amazing and professional. There are lots of opportunities, and the sales performance is unbelievable.

Cons: Budgets are starting to tighten up.

Pros: Smart and dedicated team with a great mix of academia/research and industry experience. Taking the best of research and converting it to an industrial-strength, secure, scalable product. Great dynamic start-up environment with wonderful perks/benefits in a 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 include: 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 with 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 the East Coast, there is a 3-hour time difference and a 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 a short commute and to be 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.

Pros: Strong innovation, awesome tech culture, home office, and many growth opportunities.

Cons: Less competitive compensation, bad work-life balance.