Cloudera reviews

2 HQs (Palo Alto and SF) separates employees and hurts culture. Not to mention that they both feel empty. I don’t feel like the executive staff is “connected” with the people that do the day-to-day. The worker bees are unhappy. I don’t feel like my manager cares. New management every year on the sales side. 1 step forward, 2 steps back.

Development infrastructure is challenging - each open source project has its own build and test setup optimized for its own needs, which leads to a lot of duplication and challenges with integration. The infrastructure is continually improving - the difference between when I started and now is dramatic. Previously there was a tendency to make too many bets and lose some focus, but there has been a serious effort to reign this in. Customers are often ahead of the curve of us on how hard they push the product - this leads to interesting scaling and performance challenges but I'd rather feel like we were ahead of customer needs. Individual engineers put a lot of effort into writing quality code and tests (and I don't think this is always fully recognized), but it would be good to have more people focused on breaking the software to take quality to the next level. At the individual contributor level, responsibilities and processes are often not spelled out. This is usually not a problem for self-starters especially if you build out a network of contacts in different departments. but sometimes it leads to inefficiencies and uncertainty.