Pros
- Culture of striving to be the best
- Mike Olson is a freaking rock star.
- There was a time when we were able to only hire great people. Luckily I mostly work with those people.
- Fun office perks (free lunch, treadmill desks, zen gardens, etc). SF office location is prime.
- Lots of learning which is fun. Cool products and technologies you can read up on. Don't let others scare you: it's not as hard to understand as people say it is. If it was, it wouldn't be a billion dollar industry.
- Marine mentality/camaraderie. Id est "we're all in The Suck together."
- Karaoke at holiday parties and watching the CEO let loose is priceless. I look forward to it every year. I'd stay here just for that if I'm honest with myself.
- Genuinely terrible public speaking from our new sales leader makes for hilarious memes.
- Company still tries to hold on to start-up culture/mentality by staying collaborative, open, and accepting. It's quite admirable how vigilant (albeit unsuccessful) they are with going after that ideal.
- Bright future
- If you're in a tech role in the tech industry, this is the BEST place to be.
- Listen, Cloudera created a market where there existed NONE. Then, in addition, made itself relevant and successful. Read that back to yourself out loud and understand how remarkable of an accomplishment that is.
Cons
- strong white, male culture dominates. It may need clarification that you don't need to be white or male to participate in hegemonic masculinity. {Most learn to assimilate so it's not a big deal.}
- work/life balance is atrocious. {But honestly you don't mind after a while because everyone is doing it and you're friends with everyone you work with. If you love working all the time like me, you'll love this. But I understand how it could make people's lives difficult if they had kids or something. I have a sig.o and it doesn't get in the way}
- Compensation is low for sales {but is made up for in the value of where we are as a company}
- paths to advancement/promotion are extremely hazy and unclear and I am unsure if this is on purpose. Promotions or outside hires seem to be made an a number of nebulous criteria and makes any decision a strongly contested one for most.
