Databricks reviews

- They replaced the value "Teamwork makes the dream work" with Company First - When they had Simon Sinek as a guest speaker, he shared that employees should come first because they ultimately serve the customer - the CEO disagreed - There is rarely any recognition of employees, only talk about product and sales - Almost no women in leadership, huge problems with diversity - CPO has no influence, there is nepotism on the People teams which fuels inefficiency and incompetence - There is so much insecurity on the People team because they know they're not taken seriously, that it paralyzes any effort - Conversations about trust, empathy, and psychological safety are actively discouraged - Leadership struggles to articulate its vision and mission, doesn't bring people along and there are no feedback mechanisms built in - Top down micromanagement is the norm, they hire "smart people" but don't let them do their jobs (I've heard this exact thing from dozens of people at different levels across many teams) - No decision making authority below the VP line - I've learned essentially nothing while working at Databricks, and if anything will have to unlearn bad behaviors such as not giving feedback or speaking up when I see something wrong because I have been reprimanded in the past

I have been at Databricks for 4 years. In the last 2, the culture has dramatically shifted. We used to be customer obsessed and emphasized radical candor. With the influx of Salesforce, AWS and Google employees in the last 2 years, leadership has allowed the culture to morph into a paranoid and clueless mess. Sales has bullied field engineering into doing insane, unsustainable amounts of work because they fail to upskill their own hires. Instead, there is an over reliance on the SA where you're expected to serve as customer support, strategic support, technical experts, sales process drivers, mentors, and know everything that's happening with every use case. By the way, why is there no update to this use case you updated last week? Expect back to back meetings where you're running the calls, and then spend your nights and weekends researching the answers to the hundreds of questions you receive from customers and leadership. Good luck getting a bathroom break in between! Sales has become dumb bullies, constantly asking for the same updates, getting upset at SA's for setting boundaries , and the constant micromanaging. They have truly ruined the culture and all that was good at this role.