Pros: I got lucky with a good manager.

Cons: There were no career advancements.

Pros: Very decent work culture. Excellent moral support during the pandemic.

Cons: Not aggressive, unlike the competition.

Pros: Cloudera has excellent work/life balance. The product is awesome, and almost everything is open source. Big data is used to stop fraud, save lives, and generate billions of dollars of value in the world – it is definitely a "make the world a better place" type job.

Cons: After the merger between CLDR and HWX, things are not going well. Politics are everywhere, legacy Clouderans are fleeing in droves, Wall Street has no clue what Cloudera is really worth, and compared to just a year ago, it is very difficult to trust upper management has a handle on things. After leaving, people are not getting backfilled quickly enough, leading to serious resourcing problems. This creates a negative feedback loop and more people leaving. Also, no, you cannot move *all* of those roles to Budapest or India; that is not the same thing. Career growth is difficult unless you are an absolute rockstar that rises above everyone around you. Under-investment in infrastructure and tooling. Acts like a company 1/4 their size or less, very weak on cross-company tools or processes. Hasn't yet figured out how to coordinate across GEOs in different time zones effectively.