DataRobot reviews

2.9

28% would recommend to a friend

(578 total reviews)
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Debanjan Saha

32% approve of CEO

21% positive business outlook

DataRobot has an employee rating of 2.9 out of 5 stars, based on 578 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The DataRobot employee rating is 21% below average for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.7 stars).

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578 reviews
2.0
May 31, 2022

Lost all hope and credibility

Anonymous employee
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Pros

The technology is vastly superior to everyone else's, but nobody in the sales department knows how to explain that to a potential customer.

Cons

Here's a short list in no particular order of some of the interesting things that alludes to how the current executive leadership thinks of the intelligence level of their employees, ever since they fired the founding CEO. You might be interested in knowing this before accepting a job there. * Founding CEO gets fired. New CEO treats everybody in the company like kindergarten kids by reading a clearly made-up statement from the fired CEO at the subsequent company meeting. * The publicly accessible company core values are deleted and replaced by generic sentences not reflecting any iconic stature or integrity. Things like over-communication and hard work is removed. Especially the company value "own your failures" seems to be forgotten forever. At least by the CEO and executive leadership. * Management and leaders are given an employee data hoarding tool disguised as a "productivity analysis tool" and are explicitly told not to inform their employees about it. * Management drops the existing main recruitment tool in favour of an enterprise one, probably one of the worst possible pieces of software ever created, greatly reducing the ease of recruitment of talent from the outside. Effectively stopping everybody in RD from wanting to refer any new candidate to the company. * Security hires a person beginning their employment by giving a lecture on Zoom, in which they publicly claims to have bought a fake US passport on the DarkNet and used it to smuggle a person into the United States, through TSA security nonetheless, without getting caught. * Security measures are openly criticised on the security Slack channel. One person gets publicly bullied in the channel by the CISO, who yells questions to the person such as "who do you report to?!" in order to threaten anybody else to silence in fear of getting reprimanded. * Security team silently rolls out a "security tool" to all employees laptops. The tool records all employees' key presses and records the screen as well. They then completely ignore any and all attempts from a stampede of disgruntled employees to gain clarity or explanations from management. * HR decides to shut down their Slack channel due to too many inconvenient questions from everybody. * CEO fires 7% of the company due to cutbacks. In the subsequent company meeting the CEO literally says: "Sorry for having been out of the loop for a while, but I have been very busy travelling and eating with CEOs".

4.0
Jul 27, 2022

negative press not representative of reality

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Pros

-truly the best ai/ml productivity platform on the market -slowed innovation during scaling last 1.5 years, but recent large investments and new interim CEO who led ai/ml at aws and google are very promising -tech is ahead enough of the market that slowed innovation hasnt shown up in our ability to win competitive deals (only ai/ml platform in the forrester latest leader's quadrant supports this) -AMAZING SEs (we call customer facing data scientists) who have applied AI experience and are 100% supportive of the sales team and have a true partnership that is only strengthening -the sales process and methodology works really well, when actually applied, but not for people who like to cut corners

Cons

-negative press is in fact a meta game being orchestrated by the ex- chairman and it is killing morale and driving a divide in the company (which is what he wants). all of it is BS grandstanding that are in fact about his own selfish desires and he's upset he got ousted -immature market that requires hard work and a lot of qualification to break into accounts -GTM functions are in a bit of limbo state without good communication on what to expect in the future as new president/cro joins -the sales process is very thorough and requires hard work. most people give up after cutting corners and long before they could expect to see results. then they blame the sales process. this then gives others the excuse to not follow the sales playbook. as a seller who has crushed it here since the new playbook was introduced, i believe in it, but get frustrated by others cutting corners and being negative, and not being accountable -the leadership uses extensive data to understand where the gaps are in your business. some leaders deliver this poorly and it is micro management. be warned, there is nowhere to hide here if you are not a hard worker. the data will make that clear very quickly -we have an accountability problem across every function, probably because people are frustrated

5.0
Aug 19, 2021
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Pros

A mission that everyone believes in and execution that is making that mission a reality via an amazing Culture, strong leadership and very talented individuals. This is the best company I have ever been a part of in all aspects.

Cons

It is not for everyone- you need to be entrepreneurial and someone that is able to take extreme ownership in order to be successful. The environment is truly fast-paced and ever-changing- many times requiring long hours. But if that is fine for you, this is the best place to be at.

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