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Software Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Databricks for 1 year
November 12, 2015
Berkeley, California
5.0
RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEO
Pros
  • Filled with dense knowledge about each facet of growing a company (marketing, sales, engineering, open source, management).
  • Always looking to improve and is never satisfied with just being "good" (employees here have a "make-it-the-best" mentality).
  • The management really cares about each employee and how he or she is doing at all times.
  • Expertise and devotion to Spark alongside Spark's growing adoption really makes it an exciting time to be here.
  • Everyone at Databricks is teamwork-minded, so there is a strong culture of helping each other out.
  • The company itself is growing fast, but at the same time, it never lowers its bar in hiring, so you can expect every single person to excel in their work.
Cons
  • A lot of processes (engineering, hiring, etc.) are still developing.
  • Many things still go wrong (i.e., fires), but the team really takes its time to learn from each one of these to make sure that similar occurrences do not happen.
  • It may not be a typical 9 to 5 job (a con for people who prefer 9 to 5).
Advice to Management

Keep up the great work and great job leading the company!

It would actually be great to see more of what the management is doing / thinking (maybe a bit more transparency on what is happening at that level), but other than that, everything is great!

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