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      Cloudera

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      Cloudera reviews

      4.1

      81% would recommend to a friend

      (1,272 total reviews)
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      Charles Sansbury

      79% approve of CEO

      64% 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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      5.0
      Jan 5, 2017

      Love the people and the technology.

      Software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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      Pros

      - People. The top reason I work at Cloudera are the people. I love my managers and the team I work with. Very smart folks yet fun to work with. - Founders / Executives. I've worked in tech for decades and I really like the founders and, for the most part, the executive team as well. One of the co-founders still hangs out late nights for hackathons and gaming with engineers. Overall I find the executive team very approachable, and they actually listen to people below them in the org chart. - Open source development. If you want to be an active open-source developer, Cloudera is a great place to be. The majority of our codebase is changed open-source first, then those changes are brought back into our repositories.

      Cons

      - Not all managers are as great as mine. Luckily, movement within the company is encouraged. - The dark side of open source development: It can be harder to make changes quickly since you need community consensus. This is normal, but can be frustrating when you own a feature with a deadline.

      5.0
      Sep 29, 2016

      Been an awesome ride so far

      Senior sales engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Lots of chance to learn new things Responsive product management - great to have meaningful feedback to the product Best senior management I have worked with in my 24 years in the industry - they are open, interested in talking to leaf nodes like me, insightful, willing to change direction to respond to customers and industry trends, honest, and funny.

      Cons

      Lots of people complain about work life balance. But given we have unlimited R&R, it is really your job to make the time and take enough time off to recharge your batteries. (I take about 5 to 6 weeks a year and totally disconnect from e-mail for at least 2 of them) The rate of growth of the company and customer acquisition is straining many organizations, but the company has been responding with great onboarding for sales and SEs, and adding another site to being in more customer technical support people. Standard growing pains for an enterprise technical company is hypergrowth mode. (grow or die in an fast growing market)

      5.0
      Jan 8, 2016

      smart people, good pay

      Techie in field customer enablement
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Smart people. Like, seriously crazy-smart. But also friendly and helpful. A start-up with a start-up atmosphere...but 1000+ employees so without the start-up rollercoaster. Cutting edge technology in the fast growing field of big data processing and analytics = great resume fodder. Lots of room for personal advancement. Good room for work/life balance. (Although I'm remote...if you are working at the headquarters in Palo Alto you might have a different experience.)

      Cons

      The technology is growing and changing so fast it's hard to keep your head around it all; it can be overwhelming and disheartening to realize stuff you mastered six months ago is now obsolete. The company is also growing and there are the usual growing pains. It can be hard to find "experts" to help you, not because they don't wish to be helpful, but because they are thin on the ground, as half the company was hired in the last 12-18 months. Also everyone is busy, there's way more work to go around than people to do it, so you have to set firm personal boundaries to maintain good work-life balance: no one is going to prompt you to stop work at the end of the day or take a vacation.

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