Pros
The company did have have something great going BEFORE the PE firms bought it and took it private.
Cons
Where to begin... - Private Equity firms said they were going to buy the company and not change anything as things were going fine. That was 100% false. - Layoffs - VERY low employee morale - Equity grants post going private are an absolute joke - New leadership is clueless (especially in HR) - Zero transparency from new executives The company is a shell of its former self and the PE firms are clearly just trying to cut everything and everyone to make a profit. Making a profit is a great thing but doing at the expense of destroying Cloudera is what is happening. A sale of the company seems imminent as they are RIFing people globally every month now.