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Updated May 18, 2022
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Top Review Highlights by Sentiment
- "A few key leaders are very invested in creating and keeping a great culture which gives hope for continued success in this area." (in 42 reviews)
- "Politics are everywhere, legacy Clouderans are fleeing in droves, wall street has no clue what Cloudera is really worth, and compared to just a year ago, it is very difficult to trust upper management has a handle on things." (in 7 reviews)
- "Initial training is good though not enough opportunity to train once you're stuck into your role." (in 5 reviews)
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- Current Employee, more than 3 years★★★★★Featured Review
Pros
Amazing Leadership team locally Smart motivated colleagues Unplug days Great salary and benefits
Cons
Change comes rapidly and regularly and can be unsettling sometimes
Continue reading - Current Employee★★★★★
Pros
Incredible colleagues and great work culture, doing exciting work.
Cons
pace cn be fast and furious at times
- Current Employee, more than 1 year★★★★★
Pros
Empathetic leadership, benefits, compensation, free food/snacks, monthly un-plug days off, unlimited PTO, challenging projects & internal L&D opportunities and resources. A lot of internal opportunities to grow and transfer within; partner with other groups on projects
Cons
Cloudera making the shift to private; espp and RSU's -- although the company has come up with a competitive internal STAR program in lieu
Continue reading - Former Employee★★★★★
Pros
Any pro was pre-merger with Cloudera. Hortonworks valued individual contribution, problem-solving, and teamwork. It was a fresh approach to enterprise software, and they hired smart people.
Cons
Cloudera was a dinosoaur. Post-merger they were a giant bureaucracy where individual team leads had carved out fiefdoms and done everything to block new ideas that might endanger their personal status. Cloudera folks actually said at meetings " this is Cloudera, not Hortonworks -- we're doing things the Cloudera way". Every Cloudera department uniformly passed the buck, avoided any leadership, and refused to take positions or responsibility, much less even show enough respect to understand their own internal audience or who was asking them questions. The contracts team was led by a woman who thrived on her own sense of status. I don't know how many of those people remain now, but they were all disasters. Senior leadership did nothing to represent the people integrating from the merger, exclusively rewarding legacy Cloudera employees with promotions, raises, and stock and denigrating anyone who came from Hortonworks, all the while Cloudera leadership was driving the stock well below ground. Management refused to allocate workloads equitably, in my case giving me 3 times the workload of some of my colleagues. Senior management spent most of its time out playing golf or test driving new cars instead of advocating for their own staff, others saying "don't quit" but offering no real support. Cloudera was (is?) an exercise in gross incompetence.
- Current Employee, more than 5 years★★★★★
Pros
all pros at this company
Cons
no cons at this company
- Former Employee, less than 1 year★★★★★
Pros
Good overall but it can improve!
Cons
Nothing much but they should treat all as same
- Current Employee, more than 1 year★★★★★
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work Life balance good oppurtunities
Cons
high attrition management is too young
- Current Employee, less than 1 year★★★★★
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There is always someone around the lend a helping hand. The work is challenging and busy but you are not expected to be an island.
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No cons at this time
- Current Employee★★★★★
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Best company to work in
Cons
I can't think of any
- Former Employee, more than 3 years★★★★★
Pros
Opportunity to work with data science technologies such as their Data Science Workbench and Spark Streaming.
Cons
Many overlapping products such as NiFi, Flume, Sqoop, Flink, Spark. Company is slow to adapt to changing competitive landscape.
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Cloudera Reviews FAQs
Cloudera has an overall rating of 4.2 out of 5, based on over 758 reviews left anonymously by employees. 81% of employees would recommend working at Cloudera to a friend and 69% have a positive outlook for the business. This rating has improved by 5% over the last 12 months.
81% of Cloudera employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews. Employees also rated Cloudera 4.2 out of 5 for work life balance, 4.2 for culture and values and 4.2 for career opportunities.
According to reviews on Glassdoor, employees commonly mention the pros of working at Cloudera to be career development, benefits, culture and the cons to be senior leadership, management.
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