I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Cloudera (Budapest) in Dec 2017
Interview
Multiple phone interviews followed by 5-6 on site face to face interviews with management, technical experts and HR. The f2f interviews all took place on the same afternoon. The exercises and questions asked were relevant to the role and not time wasting at all. Quite positive experience altogether.
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How would you describe what you currently do in your job role?
Extensive multi-round technical rounds with actual team members. Nice friendly environment, but tough questions from OS, networking to hadoop components and programming. Initial and final discussions are with management and recruiters.
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Describe similarities and differences of Hive and a Impala Draw the architecture diagram for Impala
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Cloudera
Interview
The interview was over zoom with a possible future colleague and a hiring manager. The interview was broken into a technique and social portion. The technique portion involved asking questions regarding the linux.
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Question 1
Asked linux commands and how to deal with costumers after you find a solution to their problems.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Cloudera (Bengaluru) in May 2019
Interview
1. Hr screening
2. 3 rounds of technical interview
3. 2 rounds of Manager interview.
4. Interview with customer success manager.
5. Director round technical and managerial. He may trick you with situational based.
6. HR round
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Question 1
1. Docker and kubernetes.
2. JVM related ex: performance/slowness/tuning/GC analysis
3. Linux concepts ex; Slowness/high CPU etc
4. LDAP connectivity issues.
5. JVM Classloading.
6. SSL issues.