Engineering Intern Interview Experience - Palo Alto, California
Process
I interviewed with Cloudera in 2010 for a Software Engineering Internship position. The organization's scheduling and efficiency were exceptional. My initial interview was scheduled within 12 hours of emailing my resume, and the following interviews were also scheduled extremely fast.
As this was for an internship position, I was given the offer immediately after the second interview. The company was very fast, and the interviewers provided very good and honest feedback. I requested to fly to Palo Alto and meet the team. This request was allowed, and I greatly enjoyed the process.
The recruiting process was substantially friendlier and more engaging than Facebook or Google, and on par with Palantir.
Questions
If you wanted to make a highly concurrent cache with a least recently used replacement policy, what data structures would you use?
How would this scale per number of threads?
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Interview Statistics
The following metrics were computed from 1 interview experience for the Cloudera Engineering Intern role in Palo Alto, California.
Success Rate
Cloudera's interview process for their Engineering Intern roles in Palo Alto, California is incredibly easy as the vast majority of engineers get an offer after going through it.
Experience Rating
Candidates reported having very good feelings for Cloudera's Engineering Intern interview process in Palo Alto, California.
Cloudera Work Experiences
- 5.0Phenomenal learning experienceEngineering Intern • Current EmployeeNovember 20, 2011Pros: Extremely technically competent team. Perhaps outside of Google, Cloudera has the best distributed systems teams in the world. The small size and high number of experienced employees made it very easy to receive excellent mentorship. Strong "no-assholes" policy during hiring makes for an awesome work experience. Hours were flexible; management didn't mind my odd hours or when I worked, as long as work was getting done. Lunch is provided, and generally the company maintains a very sane work-life balance. Assignments were very big in scope and extremely challenging. I appreciated their faith in me, and the mentorship provided, which allowed me to approach such challenges.Cons: The benefits are perhaps small compared to other, more established companies. If you expect to be spoiled like Google, Palantir, FB, etc., then you may be disappointed. There's no laundry service or on-site cafeteria, for example. Only lunch is provided, not breakfast and dinner. Compensation is very competitive, though.
- 5.0Good company to work forSoftware Engineer • Current EmployeePalo Alto, California, United StatesAugust 14, 2024Pros: Good work-life balance here.Cons: Still need better coordination between teams.
- 3.0Good Manager, No GrowthSenior Software Engineer • Former EmployeePalo Alto, California, United StatesJuly 23, 2023Pros: I got lucky with a good manager.Cons: There were no career advancements.
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