Once in a lifetime oppportunity - Senior Software Engineer Databricks Employee Review

5.0
Feb 9, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Amazing market opportunity and momentum as the industry leader for Big Data processing and the Lakehouse architecture - Continuous rate of producing excellent new products that outcompete the market - Great and very smart colleagues - high bar for hiring - Great company culture around no BS, focusing on the truth and doing the hard work which shows in impressive results - Always trying to improve and tackle the big issues, getting better every day

Cons

If you hate change and don't want to grow, this is not the place for you. - Requires you to constantly learn and adapt as well - High load of information due to the constant change - Might lead to being overwhelmed unless you have good recovery habits and are motivated to lean in While those are perceived as cons to some, you can adapt to all of them and will be better off afterwards because it will improve your career longterm.

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5.0
Jun 11, 2026
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CEO approval
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Pros

* high growth * faced paced * brilliant co-workers

Cons

* long hours, but you learn a lot

4.0
Jun 15, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- great people - amazing product that sells itself once people get their hands on it - innovative company - decent ote and benefits

Cons

- comp plan this year for hunters is not aligned with company strategy of focusing on larger, multi-year commits. it incentivizes quantity of deals vs. quality of deals, and payouts on commit $$$ are peanuts.

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