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"Good room for work/life balance" (in 18 reviews)
"Smart people lead to happy customers too, and the roster of customer successes is impressive" (in 21 reviews)
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"work/life balance, none other than that" (in 22 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
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"Great company to work for with great opportunities"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at Cloudera full-time
Pros
Great career opportunities. Great managers and culture.
Cons
Working in the field can get monotonous.
Cloudera 2018-10-22 13:08 PDTHelpful (2)
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"Leadership wake up - Cloudera/Hadoop is not anymore considered modern tech"
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Doesn't RecommendNeutral OutlookNo opinion of CEOI have been working at Cloudera full-time (More than a year)
Pros
- Good place if you want to spend time working on diverse set of tools.
- Good customer base (keeping cloudera still in the market)Cons
- Poor leadership visibility and direction to their teams.
- Product strategy is messed up. No stable or successful product recently. Only surviving with Cloudera Manager.
- Internal teams(Professional services, Engineering, Sales, Support) are not aligned to drive towards common goals.Advice to Management
- Customers are always first for the company. But for leadership employees should be first. Helping individuals to build a successful profile will have a direct influence on the business and customers. Hear the feedback from employees to keep the best talent, it automatically drives the business towards success.
Cloudera 2018-12-04 04:53 PSTHelpful (1)
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"Still strong despite some external perceptions"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at Cloudera full-time
Pros
The market opportunity is massive, and the merger with Hortonworks makes a lot of sense. We also have an executive staff that believes strongly in fostering an environment of openness.
Cons
The technology we provide has almost limitless applications; but its a difficult sale, and still complex to use.
Advice to Management
Continue to communicate openly with the staff, and focus resources on making Cloudera Enterprise easier to use.
Cloudera 2018-10-22 10:04 PDTHelpful (2)
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"Software Engineer Intern"
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The benefits were super good
Cons
The intern program was a bit disorganized compared to big companies
Cloudera 2018-09-20 17:20 PDTHelpful (10)
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"A reference for "Managing Up""
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Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookDisapproves of CEOI worked at Cloudera full-time
Pros
Good offices
Free lunches
Flexible environment
A few really talented people left, but bleeding hard
Exciting technology in an exciting domain & era
Big customer baseCons
Inversed meritocracy: work well, do grunt work, execute & please customers, you will get nothing (and someone else will get the credit). Screw-up, befriend management or old timers and you will get an all-hands shootouts and promo
Too many unnecessary layers or middle layer/PM obfuscating reality and who have zero clue. Any creativity is getting killed by those.
Competition already passed-usAdvice to Management
Share you real worries to everybody, fire the failures right away, more empathy and level-up the employees. Be bold for real and get visibility to the real doers. People can't be bluffed anymore after 2 years of inaction..
Cloudera 2018-10-17 18:50 PDTHelpful (12)
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"Sinking ship"
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Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookApproves of CEOI worked at Cloudera full-time (More than a year)
Pros
Snacks & Drinks
Happy hours
Used to have good training.Cons
“Grow with Cloudera” is not a reality. Promotions are 100% political. Backstabbing middle management has corrupted the culture. Unhealthy environment to work. Major lack of organization and structure.
Advice to Management
Fire the poor managers.
Don’t allow harassers and liars to make decisions for the company.Cloudera 2018-10-13 07:51 PDTHelpful (3)
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"Great company!"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI worked at Cloudera full-time
Pros
- Fantastic benefits and competitive pay
- Has a GREAT reputation in the Big Data world. Spending four (4) years there has provided a great springboard to other positions at some of the valley's best companiesCons
- Grew VERY fast and got lost in the growth.
- Upward movement isn't always available. Lots of veteran Clouderans ended up moving to lower positions from managerial positions to find different roles as there wasn't much available on their current track.Cloudera 2018-09-03 16:29 PDTHelpful (13)
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"Fell to pieces after the IPO"
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Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookNo opinion of CEOI worked at Cloudera full-time (More than a year)
Pros
Good salary
Nice benefits like daily lunch, unlimited PTO
Good work life balanceCons
Poor management
Nepotism
Complacency
Can be cliquey
Good people leaving en masse
Horrible HR team (no career development plans, no effort made to retain top talent)Advice to Management
Be less cocky about the company and its outlook and more transparent about the realities of trying to sell open source with bigger and better competitors in the space
Cloudera 2018-08-30 15:01 PDTHelpful (5)
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"Enterprise Account Executive"
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Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookNo opinion of CEOI have been working at Cloudera full-time
Pros
They give you a ramp.
Cons
Poor Management, No one in sales is making money.
Advice to Management
Figure out how to sell to the Business side of a organization as opposed to IT and deal sizes would be bigger
Cloudera 2018-10-05 08:14 PDT
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