I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Cloudera (Palo Alto, CA) in Dec 2017
Interview
1 phone interview + onsite interview with 6 sessions at Palo Alto, each session is 1 hour except the lunch session with director. The onsite interview last 6 hours from 10am to 4pm and keep a good mood and full energy from start to end is a challenge.
Hiring manager and director is pretty nice and I would like to talk with them, ant the position is verify attractive since they mentioned you can spend around 50% time on your favorite tasks like contributing to community besides delivering Cloudera version.
Declined offer because Cloudera doesn't match my existing salary and the engineering level doesn't match my expectation.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
System design, troubleshooting, coding/algorithm, soft skills etc.
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