Pros
* Smart Team of Engineers * Interesting Problems * 'Big Data' interest/demand seems to be on the rise in the industry * Great office perks * Wednesday no-meeting / WFH day
Cons
* Lots of good people leaving - right after they hit the 4 yr mark * Setting sights to compete with Teradata etc.. means reduced focus on other things that Hadoop has tonnes of potential for. * Skewed investments favoring certain teams while some teams are left without adequate resources. * Marketing talks about being a Hadoop company, but focus lately on customer lock-in with proprietary Management Layer and pushing Impala (Which is not really a bad thing maybe, since its a differentiator) and new Tech which does nothing to extend the Hadoop ecosystem anyway. * Don't really have adequately differentiating / better technology (which cannot be replicated by competitors easily) to warrant NOT going IPO for this long. * Hortonworks grabbing more developer mind share, and MapR has a substitute for HDFS which justifies its proprietary license by simply being more reliable and faster. * Engineering Cycles wasted on irrelevant initiatives that don't really push the product forward.