If you're someone who researched the company, enjoyed the interview and accepted an offer, you're probably not going to be in the same group as the people who hate Databricks. Databricks is a 10k people enterprise software company that just raised $10bn and is using their deep pockets to hoover up smaller companies. If that doesn't scare you, you'll be fine. For many of us, the thought of working with or using the product of a company like that strikes fear into our hearts because we have different values to you.

Databricks is the antithesis of Neon. Neon is driven by product, Databricks is driven by sales. Opinions of Databricks in a thread about Neon are going to be on the negative side (but not necessarily representative).

Welcome to Databricks!

I've been an SA at Databricks for the past two years and love it here. The people you get to work with here are world-class and our customers legitimately love our product.

I too am a little confused about comments in threads on HN about Databricks, they seriously don't reflect what I see internally and what my customers say. I don't think I'd be working here if they did.

Hopefully you weren't one of the SAs working on the bit.io migration after databricks acquired them.

Thank you, I'm excited!

Every company gets a ton of hate on Hacker News. Don't let it bother you too much. But the specific concerns may be a directional signal.

It's big, enterprise, and competes aggressively on marketing and hype. Also there have been a string of acquisitions where databricks has kind of just absorbed the team and product and then not done a great job for customers of the old company.

It's fine. Probably actually a good place to work.

In my experience, one factor is databricks releasing features fast but unpolished.

I like how they’re innovating, but it can be rough around the edges sometimes.