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      Cloudera

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      Cloudera reviews

      4.1

      79% would recommend to a friend

      (1,270 total reviews)
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      Charles Sansbury

      77% approve of CEO

      61% positive business outlook

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      4.3

      Work/Life balance

      4.2

      Diversity & inclusion

      4.1

      Culture & values

      4.1

      Compensation and benefits

      3.9

      Career opportunities

      3.5

      Senior management

      Cloudera has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 1,270 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Cloudera employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.6 stars).

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      1K reviews
      2.0
      Jul 17, 2018

      Not like it once was

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
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      Pros

      Free food and a fish tank. Benefits are good compared to other SV comps Had some coworkers that made it worth staying

      Cons

      After IPO, working here went downhill just like the stock price. Too many management changes, no consistency and though the execs say they are transparent, when asked if there would be layoffs and they said No multiple times, People were let go and jobs eliminated you can only find growth there if your job has an actual progression within their structure or youre one of the ‘insiders’ that always gets a promotion, or a new job made specifically for them. Otherwise, you’re forced to look elsewhere. Leaders talk the talk but that’s it

      2.0
      Apr 13, 2018

      Once an amazing company, but culture is changing fast

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      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.

      3.0
      Jul 27, 2017

      Solid company with room for improvement in the area of company culture

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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      Pros

      Cloudera is a solid company with solid engineering practices, a wealth of enterprise experience on staff, and the best machine learning/data analysis platform available. No doubt they are and will continue to be a success.

      Cons

      However, there are two areas where it's time they started paying attention: 1) quality of front-line managers; 2) sexism throughout most levels of the organization. Interestingly, these two problem areas feed each other. I've heard front-line managers openly make racist remarks--not worker bees, but managers, who represent the company. For example, I heard a manager of a team of 14 employees make the following remark openly without lowering his voice, "It would be a lot better if there weren't so many <color> people in PA!" When this male manager said this, everyone around him looked uncomfortable, but he is a manager--none felt they could really correct him. I've also heard managers openly diss people who report to them to other direct reports on their team. Seems like a real morale-killing practice. Who wouldn't think to themselves, "Wow, I wonder what they say about me when I'm not in the room?" As for sexism, it's like a heavy blanket lying over the building at times. It's subtle. After all, most Cloudera employees are well educated, intelligent, and quite sophisticated, but it is clear that women have to be at least 50% to 75% better at anything to be "part of the team." This kind of pervasive sexism, leads to "Queen Bee" behavior so that even the few female leaders who are brought on, respond to the sexism by trying to distance themselves from other women and by trying to be "one of the boys."

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      Cloudera Response
      8y
      Thank you for your review. Cloudera values an open and transparent workplace. While we appreciate your feedback, it's upsetting to see this review without having the ability to address the issues the writer highlights in the “cons” section because of the anonymity of the review. The issues written about don't reflect responses and input we receive from the many feedback channels (both anonymous and direct) available to Clouderans, including a 24-hour ethics hotline, regular employee surveys, the HR team, and our overall open door policy. Central to Cloudera’s culture is the fact that we are all in this together, that each of us matters. Treating one another with respect regardless of gender or race is foundational, and we believe that’s made clear in both policy and practice at Cloudera. We take maintaining our culture very seriously. We provide ongoing training to managers through programs like Big Leaders, Bias Disrupters and Managing within the Law. We invest in our Diversity and Inclusion initiatives which are developed and driven by our Diversity & Inclusion council. Our council is made up of a mix of passionate employees and HR. Some of our activities this year include the launch of multiple Employee Resource Groups, a number of Women in Leadership panel discussions, monthly speakers representing Diversity & Inclusion viewpoints as well as Bias Disrupter discussions across Cloudera . We regularly review compensation data closely for bias related to women and people of color, and ensure our HR programs eliminate unconscious bias as much as possible. It is the responsibility of all Clouderans to report such behavior through any of the channels stated above so action can be taken to preserve our open and accepting culture. To the writer of this review: please provide more detail regarding these issues internally immediately so that we may address them effectively. You can do this confidentially or directly via your manager or HR Business Partner, any other leader per our open door practice, or our 24 hour anonymous ethics hotline.
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