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      Cloudera

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      Cloudera reviews

      4.1

      79% would recommend to a friend

      (1,270 total reviews)
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      Charles Sansbury

      77% approve of CEO

      61% positive business outlook

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      4.3

      Work/Life balance

      4.2

      Diversity & inclusion

      4.1

      Culture & values

      4.1

      Compensation and benefits

      3.9

      Career opportunities

      3.5

      Senior management

      Cloudera has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 1,270 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Cloudera employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.6 stars).

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      1K reviews
      3.0
      Oct 19, 2016

      Employee

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Huge (potential) market, strong exec leadership in most areas that is trying to put the right things in place. Good pay & benefits overall.

      Cons

      Unfocused, company is trying to do 100 different things simultaneously; still early market; Hadoop is incredibly difficult for customers; company culture is not for everyone. Bottom line is that selling free software has proven to be very very difficult. Personally I wouldn't do it again (join a company whose business model is based on open source software). There are a few execs who don't reflect or model the company's values, time to show them the door.

      1.0
      Apr 5, 2020

      Arrogance and ignorance drive this company

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Missed the boat on any pros

      Cons

      Arrogance historically rewarded Lost cause Cross functional alignment non existent Abortive merger a sign of misguided management Lack of cloud strategy This company is 5 years behind due to aforementioned cons.

      3.0
      Jan 22, 2020

      Going through a rough patch

      Senior software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      * Cloudera has excellent work/life balance * The product is awesome and almost everything is open source * Big data is used to stop fraud, save lives, and generate billions of dollars of value in the world - it is definitely a "make the world a better place" type job

      Cons

      * After the merger between CLDR and HWX, things are not going well. Politics are everywhere, legacy Clouderans are fleeing in droves, wall street has no clue what Cloudera is really worth, and compared to just a year ago, it is very difficult to trust upper management has a handle on things. * After leaving, people are not getting backfilled quickly enough, leading to serious resourcing problems. This creates a negative feedback loop and more people leaving. Also, no, you cannot move *all* of those roles to Budapest or India, that is not the same thing. * Career growth is difficult unless you are an absolute rockstar that rises above everyone around you. * Under-investment in infrastructure and tooling * Acts like a company 1/4 their size or less, very weak on cross-company tools or processes. * Hasn't yet figured out how to coordinate across GEOs in different time zones effectively.

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