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 128 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 113 reviews)); "The people are great and it has been a easy transition." ((in 108 reviews)); "The benefits are good and the projects are challenging." ((in 55 reviews)); "Salary is good and you will have unplug days" ((in 38 reviews))

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

"No vision and poor management" ((in 52 reviews)); "People applying here forget that employees leave bad managers." ((in 25 reviews)); "High attrition rate and recent layoffs The senior leaders lack direction" ((in 10 reviews)); "The one that stands out the most is upper management is incompetent." ((in 8 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?

Palo Alto , Santa Clara , San Francisco , Austin , New York , Washington , San Jose , Los Angeles , Atlanta , Chicago , Raleigh , Dallas , Boston , Houston , Seattle , Baltimore , McLean , Jersey City , Cana , College Station , Plano , Texas City , Cincinnati , Dayton , California City , Culver City , Fremont , Pleasanton , Los Altos , Sunnyvale

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

5.0

Aug 30, 2016

Excellent culture

Engineering manager

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Cloudera is one of the few places in Silicon Valley that gives you the opportunity to contribute not only to the company, but also to the open source community as part of your job. Being a leader in Hadoop, it is not uncommon to find engineers who are active in the open source community. Compensation is excellent, all the usual benefits of being a tech firm in Silicon Valley are present, such as paid lunches, micro-kitchens with snacks, unlimited vacation and the list goes on. People are very friendly, politics is at a minimum. Excellent place to work.

Cons

The company is growing rapidly and is trying to move from a startup mentality to a more establish firm, as such the need for process and procedures has been noticed and is a work in progress.

4.0

Aug 24, 2016

Dynamic company, exciting opportunity, very fast expansion.

Anonymous employee

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Small company, rapid growth, dynamic environment, great people. In depth training programme.

Cons

Growing quickly and experiencing some pains through the expansion.

5.0

Aug 18, 2016

Great place to work.

Anonymous

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Great pay and benefits. Catered lunches and tons of other in office benefits. It's a fun place to work and coworkers are mostly fun to be around. It's also a place that doesn't seem to have a lot of stress, by that I mean that most employees seem happy and generally do not seem stressed out all the time. There is also a ton of room for growth, it seems like people are getting promoted all the time. Cloudera also seems to go out of its way to make sure it's employees know what is going on with the company, as well as, giving out credit to people in the company who deserve it. It's also a fun place to work as their are always things happening such as get to together's, Cloudera cares community events and Hackathons that we host. It's great to work for a company that truly does care about their employees and their community.

Cons

The only real complaint I have is that sometimes it seems as if there are two different classes of employees, Engineers, and everyone else. With the former getting far more leeway and benefits than all other employees. It's pretty harrowing to see these departments create, bend and break policies / procedures whenever it seems to suit them, with almost no pushback or repercussions.

Cloudera Response

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Thank you for this review! One thing I would like to clarify: for office perks and benefits, we try to customize to that location. For instance in the Austin office people get free parking. In the San Francisco office, Clouderans don't get free parking. Paid parking is not a standard perk in downtown SF, but it is in downtown Austin. For the Palo Alto Clouderans who travel to the SF office, their parking is not covered 100% either when they park in SF even though it is a business travel expense as they can use other ways to get to downtown SF. That's an example of how we trade off perks across the company. We realize employees can feel like there are inequities between offices, but we try to localize benefits and perks to the location of that office.

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