Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Cloudera with 3.1 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 56% positive. To compare, the company-average is 65.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 18 days to get hired, when considering 65 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Cloudera overall takes an average of 29 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Cloudera as a Software Engineer according to 65 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 38%
One on one interview: 18%
Background check: 9%
Group panel interview: 9%
Skills test: 9%
Presentation: 7%
Personality test: 3%
Other: 2%
IQ intelligence test: 2%
Drug test: 2%
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Great and short interview process and it was very easy to finish the interviews and you can rely on the interviewers to guide you along the way and what are you try to gauge isn't clear
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
what is your weakness and what you do to overcome?
The interview started with a group video briefing for all applicants. Afterwards, candidates had 30 minutes to independently solve three coding problems of approximately medium difficulty under timed assessment conditions.
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.