I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Cloudera (San Francisco, CA) in Mar 2018
Interview
The initial recruiter call includes standard questions about my work experience and what I am looking for in my next role. I was puzzled when the recruiter mentioned that I did not have enterprise software experience (which I did, but with a different vendor than what they were looking for) and was skeptical that I fit the job position. Anyway, they decided to move forward with the technical phone interview.
The technical phone interview was rather unpleasant. The interviewer called in 5 minutes late. We also experienced technical difficulty setting up the collaborative coding tool. After a few minutes resolving this issue, I finally got the chance to type in my solution. I explained my approach and provided examples to test my code. The code ran fine with my test cases. However, the interviewer seemed dissatisfied with my solution, saying it was wrong, but was unable to point out why my logic was wrong nor provide counter-examples to fail my code. Time ran out, and I was left with the conclusion that they would not move forward with the process, and the impression that the interviewer was not knowledgable about the interview question he's asking.
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.