Cloudera

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.

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.

Continue measuring and improving manager performance. The soft skills of listening to employees and making sure groups work well together are very important.

Keep being friendly and approachable. I love that Cloudera feels like a 50-person company even though we've grown to 20x that size.