Databricks reviews about "manager"

Poor leadership and zero trust in direct management. Speaking up about mismanagement or inefficiencies is not welcomed—it’s punished. My direct manager consistently demonstrated a lack of capability for the role, and senior leadership showed little clarity or direction in addressing ongoing issues. The HR People Partner also appeared unprepared to handle situations effectively, which further reinforced a lack of accountability across the organization. The leadership in Costa Rica promotes a “people-first” approach during hiring, but in practice, employees are treated as disposable. Performance does not protect you—high performers can be let go abruptly, often without clear justification, beyond vague statements like “it’s a company decision.” Overall, the behaviors and decisions at multiple levels reflect a serious gap in leadership quality and a lack of genuine care for how people are treated.

The managers and directors have 0 clue of what they’re doing. My manager made sure to evangelize that my work was not important (localization). Cero culture. Poor work-life balance,

I believe that, unfortunately, the bad, mediocre managers, the unnecessary micro-management taking so much time away from the important core work to do with customers, the bad aspects of AWS culture sweeping through, managers displaying backstabbing, unfair, contrary-to-company's-values and contrary-to-work-ethics and principles behavior, unchecked lies and retaliatory practices, incompetence and Dunning-Kruger effect in new Managers and Directors, are ruining the SAs work, our great work for our customers and the company's culture.

- Terrible middle management. constantly brags about having a better culture than FAANG yet imports managers from those same companies by the truckload. Have to work very performatively for a manager to care about your growth

- Quota can be viewed as unfair across teams/verticals, but leadership trying to make adjustments

managers dictate quality of life. hit or miss.

Losing it's startup culture - a lot of bureaucracy at times Bad managers can have a big impact on the team and your career