I negotiated for a bit higher salary after the recruiter called me and increased the scope of my responsibilities and the recruiter ghosted me. I ignored my collegues when they said Databricks was shady AF. but this is 100% true. I get marketing the company and showing it in positive light, but if you spend a whole round of the onsite interview talking about how absolutely awesome it is cuz its embracing the cloud and how their numbers are so unbelivably incredible, then one starts to wonder. Also, if you dont release satisfaction and wellness polls, that clearly means your satisfaction levels are abysmal. current TC: 290k offer: 288k (185k/15000 RSUs across 4 yrs/50k joining bonus)
Glad I didn’t waste my time interviewing with the Databricks geeks. Hickory dickery splat databricks falls flat
They really need to get their shit together.
Having a bad interview or recruiter experience doesn't necessarily reflect the whole company, I mean most of us feel great at work...
Sounds like you all have pretty bad experiences and/or opinions of databricks. It's not all perfect, amazing and the bees knees, but it's far better than everyone is alluding to in this post. Scaling recruiting in every way is challenging. Are there other companies with similar growth/style that have done better in these crucial metrics?
Databricks seems to have a pretty high hiring bar for engineers. Shouldn’t you at least have a medium bar for recruiters? Databricks has the absolute worst recruiters I’ve ever had to deal it. Leadership is too engineering focused and they miss the forest for the leetcode trees, making the company not well rounded. Has anyone at Databricks gotten out of their “little b***” comfort zone and made leadership aware of the recruiting issues? I would think not. Or maybe the recruiters are decent puppets, and their strings are being pulled by someone above encouraging horrible practices. Either way, scaling recruiting is not an excuse.
Agree scaling recruiting is not an excuse. DB has enough people and money now. I met with them too, they pretty much solve their scaling problem by hiring primarily cronies of existing employees. Makes it easy for them but extremely non-diverse for new hires from varied backgrounds.
Offer TC or GTFO
he wrote his TC. the offer is not that impressive.
Silly question: what is TC?
Op, how did you feel about the people you interviewed with, were they cool enough to have a beer with? Or the opposite Did you feel like you would get shit from HR for a racial joke?
Lunch interview was like m let’s get lunch and talk about technical questions. I found the questions to be unnecessarily going into minute details but I answered all of the questions. Some of the folks were good. Some were socially awkward and went into unnecessary details that were not related to my domain. Things like definitions and such. Either ways the interviews were okay. I wouldn’t make racial jokes and so I don’t know how to answer that questions.
Write a review in Glassdoor. Also, Keep track the name of the recruiter and hiring manager. This won’t be the first time recruiter are ghosting candidate.
Hiring manager and recruiter my mostly just messengers. Hiring manager went on a leave and leadership got involved into the role and changed the responsibilities. That was the part that put me off.
Pm me the details please
Name the recruiter
That’s a bit harsh. Also I don’t fully blame the recruiter as much as the organization itself and its instability.
Salesforce pays you more. You should just stay. We have had several colleagues move to Salesforce and they love it there. Our svp VJ is from salesforce and it seems like leadership is generally good there. Not much career growth here and the benefits are not as good. The cultural survey this year was nonanonymous so I am sure participation was low, and it still wasn’t released. Last time they didn’t release it either. It is really odd that my coworkers consider this an “open” culture. The “cronies of existing employees” comment is fairly accurate and these people skew extremely young. One of the managers with 20+ reports is 24 years old and hired a bunch of his college buddies. One time the VP (not svp) actually said that they have done a good job leveraging their own networks. He is not self-aware enough to see the irony of his statements. If you are outside of that clique then it is likely you would feel left out anyway.
Thank you for this explanation. Truly gave me an insight of the company. I have also heard similar story from others.
Interesting this is coming up. I heard the same story from a coworker. He was referred by a databricks employee a couple years ago and was ghosted. That employee came to Salesforce and referred him here and he got hired. He is a great engineer and is still here. Good for us I guess. I think it is perfectly fine to reject people, but ghosting is just highly unprofessional. Not releasing the results of a cultural survey is just pointless. Why do the survey in the first place? Just to see who is grumpy so leadership can retaliate? Our employee surveys can be referenced by each manager and everyone can see it on our internal Salesforce instance.
Databricks can’t be compared with Salesforce. My worst day at salesforce was still a pretty good day in general. It’s a very good company.
You guys have much nicer offices, too.
What level and what type of role was this for?
Lol databricks on blast Databricks? More like datadicks huehuehue
I was ghosted by LinkedIn
I don't work at LinkedIn anymore lol