Extremely rewarding though can be stressful - Engineering Manager Databricks Employee Review

5.0
Dec 28, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

* The people: smart, empathetic, friendly; it is fun and motivating to work with leaders in their fields. * Management: inspires faith in the direction they are taking the company, encourage stretching your comfort zone, adaptive to circumstances, clear leadership while also open to feedback * The work: challenging, ambitious projects * The tech: maintains several very active open source projects, including Apache Spark, and carefully adopting new technologies where it can provide long-term benefits. * Growth trajectory: company is doing really well financially, and you get to see how companies of this scale grow as fast as possible.

Cons

* Can be stressful with lots of work to accomplish under somtimes strict timelines, especially for larger projects

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Cons

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