I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Cloudera (Palo Alto, CA) in May 2012
Interview
I had a phone-screen from Cloudera last Thursday. The call went well except I really had a hard time understanding the interviewer due to his thick accent. His questions were quite open-ended and so we had to go back and forth multiple times before we decided on what he really intended on asking in the first place. But I was able to answer most of his questions properly and he seemed quite impressed with the quality of correct answers. One of the answers however he wasn't sure about, but he didn't bother clarifying or giving me the answer that he was looking for. I asked him for clarification but he kind of ignored my request and moved on with his questions. At times he seemed quite rude because I think he was getting frustrated trying to explain things concisely, but I didn't give it much significance as I attributed it to the communication problem we were having. I kept up a good attitude and carried on. I can't really say if the screening went well since I was left in a lot of doubt regarding the communication barrier.
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
Generate a random 4 letter word from /usr/share/dict/words
A
A's
AOL
AOL's
Aachen
Aachen's
Aaliyah
Aaliyah's
Aaron
Aaron's
Abbas
Abbasid
Abbasid's
Abbott
Abbott's
Abby
Abby's
Abdul
Abdul's
Abe
Abe's
Abel
Abel's
Abelard
Abelard's
Abelson
Abelson's
Aberdeen
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Cloudera (Manipal) in Sep 2025
Interview
It had 3 rounds. 2 technical and 1 managerial/technical. Both the technical rounds includes a DSA question each. First round they asked me solve the DSA question followed by the question I could solve in the OT.
Since my entire resume was ML based, all the rounds focused on ml fundamentals.
I applied through other source. I interviewed at Cloudera
Interview
three total rounds: Technical screen --> phone screen --> final round onsite; leetcode style questions and standard behavioral questions. Fast process and technical questions are framed with relevance to the work being done. Everyone was very friendly and helpful
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Cloudera
Interview
The test had 3 coding questions:
2 DSA
1 SQL
Ranging from moderate level to hard level
Time limit was 75 minutes.
SQL question: From the given table named product, with one column as product _id and another column as price, find the Second Highest Price product. Different products can have same prices.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
SQL question: From the given table named product, with one column as product _id and another column as price, find the Second Highest Price product. Different products can have same prices.