Databricks reviews

4.0

76% would recommend to a friend

(1,623 total reviews)
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Ali Ghodsi

91% approve of CEO

85% positive business outlook

Databricks has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 1,623 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Databricks employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.7 stars).

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1.0
Jun 2, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Constantly evolving and innovating at a rapid pace, creating an exciting and dynamic work environment. Leadership is focused and aligned on execution, which helps maintain momentum as the company continues to grow. There is a strong culture of financial discipline, with careful attention to spending and resource allocation. Compensation is heavily weighted toward equity, which has been rewarding so far given successive funding rounds and increasing company valuation.

Cons

Leadership is callous and ungrateful, often dismissive of individual contributions and impact. Prior work that directly contributed to signed contracts and revenue is routinely disregarded, which is demoralizing and devalues long-term effort. Workload is unsustainable: a book of business with 100+ customers makes it nearly impossible to deliver high-quality support. Required to support two extremely demanding AEs on opposite coasts, creating constant context switching and pressure across multiple time zones. Typical workdays start before 6:00 AM Pacific and run late into the evening, leading to ongoing burnout with no real acknowledgment or relief. AEs say “yes” to everything, including trivial questions customers could solve via Google or documentation, which wastes technical time and energy. Sales behavior encourages misuse of technical resources, such as opening support tickets for customers who do not even have a valid support contract. Company is cheap on compensation: initial offers underpay relative to years of experience and skills, and place heavy emphasis on equity instead of fair base salary. I still had to push hard and negotiate an extra $10K on top of their already low initial offer, which reinforced the sense that they underpay by default. DEI messaging feels performative; support for LGBT employees over 60 is effectively nonexistent, making the DEI narrative ring hollow. Benefits are rigid and exclusionary: no health coverage for domestic partners over 65 who are on Medicare unless legally married, leaving significant gaps for long-term partners. There is no meaningful investment in professional development or career growth, despite the demands placed on technical staff. The product and platform are highly technical and complex, yet training, documentation, and internal support do not match this complexity, increasing stress and ramp time.

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Databricks Response
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Thank you for taking the time to share this feedback. I’m sorry to hear this was your experience. While I’m glad there were aspects of Databricks that felt exciting and rewarding, the concerns you raised are serious. No one should feel that their contributions are dismissed or that burnout is accepted as part of the job. I want you to know we take this feedback seriously and will share these themes with the relevant teams. We continue to focus on creating an excellent experience for our employees as we scale. Thank you again for sharing your perspective. I wish you all the best in what comes next. -Amy Reichanadter, Chief People Officer
3.0
Oct 10, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

I won't say anything surprising here: - The tech is great. I love building things with Databricks - I believe in executive leadership vision - The company is successful. I think my equity is worth something I would write more about the pros here, but others have said most of what I could say.

Cons

Small cons first - No 401K matching - Our infrastructure policies are weird and delete things you create after a few weeks. So you end up in a situation where that app/pipeline/ML model/agent you made doesn't work just in time for a demo sometimes These aren't a big deal. What is a big deal is that there is not a small chance you will run into a toxic work environment as an SA. - In my < 1 year tenure here, I've heard of multiple instances where other Solutions Architects were fired because they upset sales leadership. My AE was also fired for upsetting sales leadership. - We conduct anonymous culture surveys every six months. On a group call, a sales manager reviewed the feedback someone had written about her and attempted to identify the author of the feedback. It was uncomfortable. - I don't have the time to go into all of the insanity with Salesforce rules and reporting. Or the scorecard sales execs have. Or the many internal calls related to the two. I can only say no rational human will enjoy it

2.0
Nov 8, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great vision from the CEO with an open culture. Quite innovative and fast paced environment.

Cons

The culture in the support organization is very toxic and these are the reasons. 1/ It is a nickel and dime shop. What they care about daily is metrics and productivity. They don’t care about people or work life balance and completely lack vision and strategy in improving customer experience. Everything is reactive. This is a reflection of the senior leadership team and engineering (as support is part of engineering) 2/ They are way behind in creating tools and AI in support. They have no clear strategy because they chase their own tail in operations. 3/ Engineers stay only because of the options and good salary. It would be never be because of poeple at the leadership level who cook stories and want to always look good with HR on the sidelines doing nothing.

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