Celebrating Pride Month at Databricks
With Pride month coming to an end, Databricks’ newest Employee Resource Group, Queeries Network, is looking back at how we celebrated. The mission of this group is to create opportunities to come together to discuss topics important to the LGBTQ+ community, network and build community. To celebrate Pride Month, our Queeries Network Employee Resource Group...
Online Learning with Databricks
Recently, a gentleman named Scott Galloway was featured in an article in New York Magazine about how Covid-19 is breaking the higher education business model. The article led to an invitation to a live interview with Anderson Cooper (full transcript of that interview can be found here). When I watched that segment and saw Anderson...
Intern Tips for a Virtual Databricks Internship
Winter 2020 Interns at our Spark Social S’mores Event At Databricks, we host interns year-round, and we love sharing their experiences working on impactful projects that help data teams solve the world’s toughest challenges. This summer’s intern program will be entirely virtual, with interns working on our Engineering team from all over the world. It’s...
Evolving the Databricks brand
Some brands start out as, well, brands. A lot of work goes into the concept and painting the picture before the business is ever launched. Databricks is different. It always has been and always will be an engineering-led company. Databricks’ model for innovation is inspired by the open-source community. This is where our roots run...
What it means to be customer obsessed
One of our values at Databricks is to be customer obsessed. We deeply care about the impact and success of our customers, and are proud to be recognized by Gartner for focusing on this. A key part of that is how we strategize on making the world better through the applications of data. Working as...
Creating a Productive Work Environment from Home
Whether working from home is an old habit or the “new normal” for those adhering to COVID-19 protocols, we want to share Bricksters’ tips and tricks of how they create a productive and engaging work environment at home. Rebekah Uusitalo, Director, Talent Acquisition Operations and Programs (Toronto, ON) While many companies are shifting to a...
Women’s HERstory Month at Databricks
As we celebrate Women’s HERstory Month this March, we reflect on the community that we’ve built within Databricks and throughout our careers. Our mission as Co-Leads of the Women of Databricks Employee Resource Group is to promote inclusion, career growth, leadership, mentorship, and networking. A strong support system is one of the keys to achieving...
A Look into the Mid Market Sales Team
At Databricks, we are passionate about helping data teams solve the world’s toughest problems. Databricks helps organizations innovate faster and tackle challenges like treating chronic disease through faster drug discovery, improving energy efficiency, and protecting financial markets. With the help of our sales team, we are able to connect thousands of global customers to Databricks'...
I Joined Databricks to Make Data Science a Little Less Scary
Big data and AI has always struck me as useful, but slightly scary. For example, it’s useful when Waze uses big data to help me outsmart a traffic jam. On the other hand, big data’s ad-targeting is so powerful that millions of people are scared that their smartphones are eavesdropping on them. Why Big Data...
Celebrating Black History Month | Black Employee Network
Celebrating the launch of our two newest ERG Groups:Black Employee Network and Latinx at our 2020 Company Retreat With the start of Black History Month, Databricks launched our newest Employee Resource Group, Black Employee Network. The mission of this group is to provide support to Black employees and allies by providing a place to build...
