Cloudera·Software Engineer

Cloudera Software Engineer interview experience

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IndiaPosted Jan 2023 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I had a process that started with a promising framing, then became uncomfortable fast.

The first round was supposed to be system design, but the interviewer abruptly shifted into a hard-level coding question instead. It felt like I was being tested for gaps unrelated to what the round had been introduced as, and the interaction came across more like interrogation than collaboration.

In the next round, I got more pushback in a similar way. The interviewer seemed to want a very specific approach and wouldn’t really accept the reasoning behind alternatives, even as I tried to explain tradeoffs and the pros of what I chose. The discussion dragged on past the scheduled structure,

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