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Honestly an Amazing Place to Work

Solutions Architect
Current Employee
Has worked at Databricks for 1 year
February 17, 2021
Boston, Massachusetts
5.0
RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEO
Pros
  • Kind, smart, driven, conscious, empathetic, and intelligent people.

  • Awesome product with great engineering and product teams that actually do user research and develop based on user feedback.

  • A really, really great People Ops team with tons of resources for BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ individuals. They also have tons of internal events to keep people engaged, motivated, and connected.

  • Lots of attention paid to individual growth by everyone, from direct managers all the way to the leadership team.

Cons
  • Growing really, really, really fast, so keeping up to date on product features, updates, and supported integrations is a tough task. Everyone has their own repository of content, so a lot of repeated work is being done in silos.

  • The product surface area is very large and growing every day. This makes it hard to get a good grasp on who the target personas are and delve deep into a specific functionality or domain. One has to be a jack of all trades and split attention between many different parts of the platform.

Advice to Management
  • Continue making data-driven decisions.
  • Continue being as transparent as possible with your employees and tell them WHY you're making the decisions you're making.
  • Continue to check in with employees on how they're feeling and what you can do to support their work better.
  • Start devoting more attention to further diversifying the workforce.
  • Stop cultivating a culture around Berkeley, Stanford, CMU. It's cult-like and exclusionary to other folks.

Additional Ratings

Work/Life Balance
3.0
Culture and Values
5.0
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
4.0
Career Opportunities
5.0
Compensation and Benefits
5.0
Senior Management
5.0

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