Is Cloudera a good company to work for?

Cloudera has an overall rating of 4.1 out of 5, based on over 1,400 reviews left anonymously by employees. This rating has been stable over the past 12 months. 80% of employees would recommend working at Cloudera to a friend and 63% have a positive outlook for the business. The best reviews about Cloudera have been left by employees working as Solutions Architect , Software Engineer and Account Executive .

Does Cloudera pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, Cloudera employees rate their compensation and benefits as 4.1 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at Cloudera. This rating has decreased by 1% over the last 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at Cloudera?

80% of Cloudera employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated Cloudera 4.3 out of 5 for work life balance, 4.2 for culture and values and 3.9 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at Cloudera?

Software Engineer (129) , Senior Software Engineer (81) , Account Executive (39) , Customer Operations Engineer (39) , Staff Software Engineer (37) , Solutions Architect (29) , Sales (20) , Senior Customer Operations Engineer (19) , Solutions Engineer (18) , Software Engineer(Internship) (17) , Manager (13) , Enterprise Account Executive (11) , Sales Engineer (11) , Software Developer (10) , Staff Customer Operations Engineer (10)

What are the pros of working at Cloudera according to real employee reviews?

"Good work life balance and enjoyable" ((in 134 reviews)); "A few key leaders are very invested in creating and keeping a great culture which gives hope for continued success in this area." ((in 109 reviews)); "The people are great and it has been a easy transition." ((in 103 reviews)); "The benefits are good and the projects are challenging." ((in 62 reviews)); "Salary is good and you will have unplug days" ((in 46 reviews))

What are the cons of working at Cloudera according to real employee reviews?

"No vision and poor management" ((in 55 reviews)); "People applying here forget that employees leave bad managers." ((in 23 reviews)); "High attrition rate and recent layoffs The senior leaders lack direction" ((in 8 reviews)); "The one that stands out the most is upper management is incompetent." ((in 7 reviews))

What are employees saying about Cloudera layoffs in 2026?

Explore Glassdoor’s employee reviews to understand what current and former employees are saying about Cloudera layoffs and their outlook for job security at Cloudera in 2026.

What are the top reviewed Cloudera locations?

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Cloudera reviews

4.1

80% would recommend to a friend

(1,272 total reviews)

Charles Sansbury

79% approve of CEO

63% positive business outlook

Ratings by category

4.3

Diversity & inclusion

4.3

Work/Life balance

4.2

Culture & values

4.1

Compensation and benefits

3.9

Career opportunities

3.6

Senior management

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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1K reviews

3.0

Sep 24, 2019

Still relevant in multi workload and hybrid environment

Anonymous employee

Recommend

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Pros

1. Top-notch engineering team (original folks from Hortonworks) 2. Lots of good talent left in Sales/Solution Engineering, PS, Support, etc 3. Opportunity to get exposed to lots of tech and use cases (not typically possible with a fast-paced <$1B company) 4. Top-notch marketing

Cons

1. Cloudera -prior to merger with Hortonworks- behaved like a very large, slow company with no decision making muscle--every group/BU used to run independently and each tiny BU used to behave like a $B org, managed by junior GMs with no prior P&L experience. 2. Takes forever to make important strategic goals beyond saying "we want to be a cloud-first company" while neglecting the core install-base. 3. Needs a good CEO who can clean up the executive team and bring experienced execs who can scale to $B+ company

3.0

Apr 18, 2019

Data Revolution with Data Science

Sales

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Great complex product to leverage data to predict the future.

Cons

Need to determine what they want to focus on after the merger

5.0

Mar 16, 2019

Never seen an opportunity this big

Sales manager

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Tom Reilly is genuinely a nice person And is passionate about culture and transparency. Scott Aronson loves salespeople. They both love customers. Our R&D team created an industry and are still disrupting the dinosaurs of database while integrating with the cloud providers like AWS, Azure, and Google. Our Enterprise Data Cloud seamlessly integrates on-prem and cloud based data and applications from the edge of IOT to AI and data science. This is what every company that wants to remain relevant and cost competitive is trying to do right now and we have the platform to get them there. Something like 90% of the global 2000 are on our platform and those platforms are starting to grow like crazy. The best part is we earn the right to bill our customers. Open source is such a purely mutual value driven business model. The west region offices are beautiful and easy to get to for work and meetings.

Cons

I honestly have no cons. And No, management did not ask for this review to be written. (Its so obvious on other reviews).

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