I applied online. I interviewed at Cloudera (Palo Alto, CA) in Aug 2017
Interview
I applied for a software engineer position online. It was typical tech company interview process. I had an online coding interview with a Cloudera engineer. A couple of days later, they emailed me that they would like to bring me for onsite interview.
There were 4-5 interview sessions for onsite interview. Most of interviewers were quite friendly. Nonetheless, only one of them is working for the team I was applying for. Probably that's the reason interviewers showed little interest in my background. A majority of questions asked were either irrelevant to the job or quite unusual. If I am not mistaken, there was no interview training at Cloudera on how to communicate with interview candidates.
Overall, the whole interview logistics was organized very well, but not so much for the technical interviews.
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.
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