Pros
Altiscale employs some of the brightest Hadoop innovators and engineers who are making significant contributions in the areas of compute bursting, multi-tenancy, and monitoring. The salaries and benefits are quite competitive and the company appears to be on the leading edge of the big data analytics space from a technical perspective
Cons
The executive management team appears to be vacuous, deliberately incurious and decidedly dishonest as they offer zero value while revenue and new customer count has declined quarter by quarter - leading to a major layoff. Despite irrefutable evidence, in the form of lost deals and declining revenue, the management team arrogantly sticks to their assumptions and dismisses well meaning and studied advice from the rank and file while they blatantly mislead employees and candidates about the status of the company.