Cloudera

Gender equality and D&I is taken very seriously (when it comes to US minorities, esp.).

Compensation package is quite good.

Work-life balance can be really good, but not always.

Highly skilled engineers are around you.

Open-source development, and the visibility that comes with it.

Engineers get to interview who they are supposed to work with.

Too US-centric. Sometimes, I felt that we were second-class citizens. That was partly because the company is like that, and partly because the majority of the team was US-based, and they had more control over the product roadmap.

Work-life balance can sometimes be bad, but still not very bad.

Many people are overskilled for the work they are expected to do. They select the best people in the interview process, then give them non-senior-level tasks.

Not everyone is highly skilled. Support engineers are cheap workforce from India mainly, and they only serve as mail forwarding agents between the pissed-off customers and the engineers. When I had escalations, by the time I was involved, the customer was furious, and the support engineer had zero input. This happened quite frequently. It was different when the support organization was in Hungary.

Total lack of processes. Sure, that means no rigid processes, but when you need something, you have to spend an awful lot of time to figure out how to get it.

A lot of things happened to the company, and all of it was communicated really badly to "clouderans".

Better communication is essential. Be less greedy!