Databricks reviews

* Lack of clarity on IPO timeline (expected, somewhat) * Growing pains coming with the startup => public company * No 401k match

If this review was 1 year ago, my rating would be 5 star. It had a great culture, company who really cared about its people, we were a family, we believed in getting work done with no politics or drama - Employees were called cofounders. Now.... no no no.. huge NO! The company culture has drastically changed over a 1 year period - mainly the culture and care for employees. One of the Databricks values is "raise the hiring bar" but it doesn't see the culture fit. It hired bunch of dirty political people in the middle management including some VPs who ruined it for the shining employees who cared about keeping customers first, building things and not care about drama. Databricks hired bunch of political people to ruin the company culture and it is creating an unhealthy environment for its employees. Of course, the new hires want to join the company now because Databricks has a well established brand in the market and soon going to be IPO. But it was because of the blood and sweat of its early employees who worked so hard to get it to this place. There is no good internal process, no retention efforts by HR or even senior management. Leadership remains quiet and doesn't care losing good employees. They do internal surveys and not care about taking action for those transparent words that employees have to say about their work frustrations. They don't seem to have any respect for ICs. They seem to celebrate diversity and care about women too - but for example one specific VP who is a woman herself doesn't care about creating healthy environment for her employees and believes in playing political games. Some of the recent reviews giving it 5 star came through within last 2 weeks, of course so that they can get their ratings higher on glassdoor to make up for the bad and transparent reviews.