Pros: Excellent talent pool, good perks, and a clear outlook for the company. Despite stiff competition, Cloudera is and will continue to be the market leader in the Big Data space. As a brand, Cloudera is worth the hype.

Cons: Very stiff competition in the big data segment. We need much more defining and attractive differentiators from the rest of the companies in this space.

Pros: People. The top reason I work at Cloudera is the people. I love my managers and the team I work with. They are very smart folks, yet fun to work with. Founders / Executives. I've worked in tech for decades, and I really like the founders and, for the most part, the executive team as well. One of the co-founders still hangs out late nights for hackathons and gaming with engineers. Overall, I find the executive team very approachable, and they actually listen to people below them in the org chart. Open source development. If you want to be an active open-source developer, Cloudera is a great place to be. The majority of our codebase is changed open-source first, then those changes are brought back into our repositories.

Cons: Not all managers are as great as mine. Luckily, movement within the company is encouraged. The dark side of open-source development: It can be harder to make changes quickly since you need community consensus. This is normal, but can be frustrating when you own a feature with a deadline.

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.