MapR Technologies Employee Reviews about "good technology"

Pros

* Big Data is a very in demand technology, and being here gives a very wide exposure to the latest in the field * Lots of requests from customers on a wide variety of use cases and solutions. Provides lots of creative opportunities combined with exploration of latest technologies * Wide ecosystem of products ensures technical skills never limited to any single software product or product family alone. * Full stack of solution provides technical work exposure on everything right up from kernel to filesystem to hadoop ecosystem to java applications and third party end user solutions. * Good work environment - startup culture gives flexible options, limited heirarchy * Direct close contact to principal engineers and architects behind the product stack * Healthy culture of assistance and training from top tier engineering leadership * Regular team outings, refreshments etc * Pay packages at par with the top tier of tech companies * Steadily growing customer-base and revenue granting good stability for the company on a performance basis

Cons

* Financial policies quite restrictive * No own campus, so limited on-premise sports or other activities * HR practices limited to bare minimum. * Employer benefits limited

Pros

Opportunities to work on an incredible variety of technology Smart employees yearning to build leading products Incredible market opportunity

Cons

Do not work in engineering unless you came from Informatica - the culture that management team has created is toxic Engineers are employee #s and nothing more - no effort to advance their careers to help both them and the company together Leadership focused on placing blame and preventing advancements over delivering product Salaries are on-target, but equity is poor

Pros

Great technology and in a hot space

Cons

Product led Company so sales & marketing are a bit leaderless

Pros

Lot's of support and material for being successful. Young company growing into a real legacy technology brand. Feels good to be selling a best of breed product that works and everyone believes in!

Cons

Still working on some startup jitters but they're going a way very quickly.

Pros

Worked as Software Engineering Intern in the DB/Streams team. Super intelligent and hard working people, awesome company to have. More to learn everyday with new challenges and new technologies in distributed systems. Flexible work hours, start-up culture, great work/life balance.

Cons

The relocation amount is a bit of a concern.

Pros

-Growing company with flexible work hours in a great technology space. Well funded. Rumored to be going public.

Cons

-Lack of culture has resulted in continuos turnover. Rumored to be going public. Ex-oracle executive team - major lack of diversity in the leadership team.

Pros

Great Technology that was being well adopted

Cons

Poor Management struggling to keep the lights on

Pros

Advanced Technologies on BigData File System

Cons

Not open source software in a open source community of big data industry.

Pros

It is a good technology in the big data space trying its best to be something special. Strong learning opportunities.

Cons

Depend heavily on existing customers. Struggling to find an angle to move forward. Messaging often does not resonate with new prospects.

Pros

good technology . lots of scope and use cases that can be worked out.

Cons

no vision n clarity. very political environment. is it a storage company or a big data company or what ??? it has no identity of its own.