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Pros
Good room for work/life balance (in 14 reviews)
Strong capability for products with big data and good people to work with (in 19 reviews)
Cons
Definitely challenging when it comes to work-life balance (in 21 reviews)
There are always going to be growing pains with hyper-growth companies, like figuring out where to put everyone (in 29 reviews)
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"Best Place EVER"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at Cloudera full-time (More than a year)
Pros
Great and welcoming environment, great leadership team and the best culture I have ever worked for!
Cons
Nothing that we can throw on Cloudera
Advice to Management
Keep it up and support the initiatives coming from the teams
Cloudera 2018-03-27 08:59 PDT ![Cloudera Logo]()
"Good environment and people"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at Cloudera full-time (Less than a year)
Pros
People are nice, laid back, benefits are good.
Cons
Office space is limited now, but will expand soon.
Cloudera 2018-04-13 09:14 PDT![Cloudera Logo]()
"So far so good"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at Cloudera full-time (Less than a year)
Pros
- decent compensation
- wfh on Wednesday
- nice and talent people - you can learn new things everyday
- free lunch and snacksCons
- Recently added 401K match but only 1%
- It will be good to have more 401K investment options like adding brokerage accountCloudera 2018-05-16 12:53 PDT![Cloudera Logo]()
"Cloudera is a great place to work"
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RecommendsNeutral OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at Cloudera full-time
Pros
Extremely intelligent peers, great benefits, challenging product (always learning something new), ideal office location and culture
Cons
Additional pressure on all departments following IPO last year, lack of sales senior level leadership
Advice to Management
Over communicate (whenever possible) with employees on changes and their impacts to the business and individuals.
Cloudera 2018-05-14 14:36 PDTHelpful (1)
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"Exciting times at an exciting organization"
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Doesn't RecommendNeutral OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at Cloudera full-time (Less than a year)
Pros
Amazing executive leadership; good benefits; solid solutions that customers want; good strategy moving forward
Cons
First line leadership; momentum of 'big data'; transition to cloud slower than it should be.
Advice to Management
Leadership from the CEO down has been great, but the first line managers are lost and ineffective. Running their 'teams' as a salesperson would not a leader. Keep a close eye on your first line managers, they are not towing the line for the company direction and overall ineffective as leaders.
Cloudera 2018-05-11 11:21 PDTHelpful (7)
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"Once an amazing company, but culture is changing fast"
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Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at Cloudera full-time
Pros
Polite employees.
Great work life balance.
Flexible work schedule.
Transparent leaders.Cons
Infighting between and within departments make it a toxic environment.
Middle management has little leadership experience.
Passive aggressive people who want to undermine you at every turn.Advice to Management
Pretty much all decisions are made by upper management. You won't scale without good processes in place.
Cloudera 2018-04-13 22:59 PDTHelpful (1)
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"fair compare to other companies"
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RecommendsNeutral OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at Cloudera full-time (More than 3 years)
Pros
Free lunch, though waiter.com always late those days
Coffee bar, lots of snacks
Gym
convenient location
Health insurance, 401K
ESPPCons
lack of collaboration among teams
Cloudera 2018-03-31 10:42 PDTHelpful (1)
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"Good place to work, but improvements are needed"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at Cloudera full-time (More than 5 years)
Pros
Generally good, smart people work here, senior leaders are strong with a good vision, free lunch and barista at HQ, still small enough to make a noticeable impact, flexible schedule with WFH option
Cons
not much room for career/salary growth which leads to attrition, process/system improvements are underfunded and under staffed, work/life balance and "do more for less" pressure is often an issue
Cloudera 2018-03-27 11:50 PDTHelpful (10)
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"Avoid this sinking ship!"
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Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookApproves of CEOI worked at Cloudera full-time (More than a year)
Pros
None whatsoever! just adding stuff here to get this through
Cons
Very incompetent low level management creates a toxic environment for employees, they have good work to be done but the good people won't hang around for long in an environment that fosters lone wolves instead of team work. Benefits can't compete with larger employers, the promise of profitability slides deeper and deeper into the future and so does your economic rewards if any.
Instead of working on making the company more appealing the company patrols reviews in glassdoor trying to weed out negative reviews: may be that talent will be best used building some new feature into the products or providing better service to customers?Advice to Management
Fire all the incompetent managers that get negative reviews and hire experienced managers that can keep talent in house.
Cloudera 2018-04-11 17:29 PDTHelpful (1)
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"Solid Place to Work"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI worked at Cloudera full-time (More than a year)
Pros
-Decent compensation
-Great leadership with excellent vision for the future
-Great sales engineers that are adept at articulating the value of the platform from both a technical and business perspectiveCons
-Long, arduous sales cycles that can often take up to 2 years before completing an initial order
-A customer want to do a pilot/POC will get turned off by how expensive it is often ending a potential sales cycle very earlyAdvice to Management
Find a way to make POC/pilots easier and less expensive for potential customers
Cloudera 2018-03-19 08:07 PDT
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