Pros: It's been a little over a month here, and Cloudera's been very good for me so far. The facilities and the onsite perks for employees are very good and are better than most, if not all, valley companies. The culture of work is very open, and people are willing to help you onboard as well as spend time handling critiques when seeing things with a new perspective.

Cons: Growing fast, a lot of hiring across all areas, so there are certainly some growing pains with communication and information dissemination. This can lead to a feeling of not being directly connected to the whole, especially if you are new and haven't waded through the rivers of Hadoop prior.

Pros: Big data technologies relevant to the market. Typically no work on weekends, but for the Cloud team, which was releasing public and private cloud products, people worked overtime a lot and were burnt out. Free lunch and coffee.

Cons: Too many. Upper management is there to enrich themselves and will use layoffs as a first resort. Morale is low because of post-merger conflicts. Even though they say it’s one team, the end result was HortonWorks people kicking out Cloudera people, especially at the middle management level. Experienced people, those who used to be PMC, and founders have all left. You still go to work with smart people if you are lucky, but the breadth and depth of your coworkers are no longer there. They have this ridiculous blocking period that starts two months before earnings. That means there are eight months in a year you cannot trade the stock.

Pros: Able to work from home. Salary considered good.

Cons: Poor management, not much progression. Please don't join the company if you wish to improve or have a promotion opportunity.