Databricks

• Extremely talented, grounded, and motivated coworkers
• Competent and open-minded upper management
• Business plan is ambitious and expansive

I think Databricks is one of the best places to work as an engineer. The engineers here are uniformly competent, hard-working, and compassionate, and the co-founders who lead engineering set a fantastic example. I'm happy to be a Brickster!

• We're still a young company and going through some growing pains, so production fires are a bit more common than I'd like.
• It tends to be a hardworking bunch (by choice, not dictum), so not ideal if you're looking for a 9-5 gig.
• Making enterprise software can be a pain in the butt (hands-on treatment for large customers, having to be very careful about backwards compatibility).

Speak more about the company's strategic direction. All of the cofounders are more than happy to talk about their long-term ideas for the company if you ask them, but they could do a better job announcing their thoughts at our weekly all-hands.