Databricks reviews

Basically everything else. Databricks is trying to grow up without a plan of how to do so well, and it's an extremely painful process to be a part of. The CEO still insists on being deeply involved in every decision no matter how minuscule which equates to disempowering any other employee below him (that means everyone). Change initiatives are so incredibly slow and often derailed at the 11th hour bc of some nit picky detail from the CEO or CFO demands even though its outside of their domain, clearly they don't trust anyone else to be the experts which makes everyone else basicaly minions to what is being dictated to them. Why hire senior people and pay them tons of cash if you don't trust them to do their job? Also, any of the teams outside of Eng and Sales are so understaffed (yet expectations/OKRs etc are not created to consider that) and so therefore teams are set-up to fail. There are no career paths, no recognition unless you're in engineering and pretty poor benefits if you're not employed in the US. Sorry non-US people, you'll be forgotten and HQ can easily look away so they don't actually have to address the problems. I don't really think they know how and won't admit it so you'll either be told for years that "it's being worked on" with no result or your problems will be completely dismissed bc the US has no empathy for international teams. Also, expect to get meeting invites in the middle of the night, for hiring so many smart people, not sure why they forget about a thing called time zones...

- Terrible culture (ANZ), no one is happy except the management team who want to cash out - There is no trust. All sales activity is tracked (calls, notes, meetings, outbounds, emails etc), however, these metrics are not important ... only sales - even at the cost of customer relationships and employee turnover. PIPs are handed out like lollies to some of the best reps in the region when they miss a target. - Sales success is with a few "lucky" individuals, the vast majority are not making their number and either looking for another job or waiting for the IPO payday. - Every manager pretends to want to help you, but the truth is, they have no ability to help their reports. They are powerless and hopeless.