Cloudera

The employee experience highly relies on the team and the manager, but for me, it is pretty positive overall.

I work on a very interesting project that has enough depth to always have something to learn.

The teammates are super competent and motivated. They are also helpful and nice to everyone.

Compensation was extraordinary pre-private-equity time, but still is competitive.

Since the private equity buyout, the mood around the company has gone wrong. Many experienced colleagues left and they could hardly be replaced with significantly younger talent.

The compensation has started to shrink since becoming private (no more RSUs but some worthless virtual shares), hopefully this will be addressed in the near future.

There is strong politics involved in what project we prioritize, and often the most reasonable option does not win. And when people put like one to two years into a project, there is a change in direction so that we could start working on something opposite and put our recent work into the trash.

Start putting personal preference aside and pick the most reasonable choices. For example, no customer wants FENG, however, we force them to use it by implementing features exclusively for FENG.