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      Cloudera

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      Cloudera reviews

      4.1

      80% would recommend to a friend

      (1,272 total reviews)
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      Charles Sansbury

      79% approve of CEO

      63% positive business outlook

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      Cloudera has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 1,272 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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      3.0
      Jul 16, 2018

      A Relatively Isolated Working Environment

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
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      Pros

      1. Seems cool to work on open source project and be a committer. 2. Pays well.

      Cons

      1. Small office in San Francisco. Very crowded. 2. Bad technology stack.

      2.0
      Apr 14, 2017

      Narrow-minded, in the Silicon Valley bubble

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
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      Pros

      Intelligent people. Passionate about Cloudera. Sincere in their belief that Cloudera will dominate the world. Nice CEO and Founders.

      Cons

      Unwilling to adapt to the world beyond Silicon Valley. These guys are so drunk on their own internal arrogance that I wonder if they will survive. They think their competitors are idiots. Their marketing team is very small and evidently Senior Management isn't interested in growing it. They think their customers on Wall Street and in the Bay Area are representative of the market at large -- they are not. They don't understand that not every customer has a staff of 20 all ready to dig into Big Data. Don't bother applying if you are differently abled, don't look like a computer geek, or haven't spent the past 5 years in Silicon Valley.

      5.0
      Jan 5, 2017

      Very open and responsive company

      Software engineer
      Recommend
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      Pros

      The company is very transparent. All-hands meetings happen regularly with very open Q&A sessions. A lot of effort is put into collecting feedback from employees and customers, improving efficiency of communication across the company and communicating decisions and their rationale back. Despite occasional changes in leadership, massive growth, and several events that might cause most companies to become more secretive, the company has remained this way: very open, and upfront. Most employees are very passionate about the product and what it can do. All managers that I've worked for or known well are very invested in helping their employees be effective, and balancing company-wide goals with individual interests and ambitions. Although the company is not perfect, people tend to be open to admitting that, are aware of the short-comings and work to correct them in reasonable time frames.

      Cons

      Sometimes there's a bit of cultural rift in the company, between projects that are open-source and projects that are proprietary. The company has an excellent policy for deciding what should be proprietary that I think most people are aware of, but there's still sometimes a gap in how teams want to work or how the individual team members are used to working as a result. It's been a long time since I saw this causing any real problems, though.

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