Cloudera·Software Engineer

Cloudera Software Engineer interview experience

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BudapestPosted Aug 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

One experience centered on deep coding and software engineering fundamentals, with a heavy emphasis on Java.

The discussion started with HR background and teamwork topics, but it quickly shifted into pair-programming-style problem solving. From there, I went through database concepts like indexing and normalization, plus ACID principles. Clean code practices came up too, including how naming and design principles like SOLID would apply.

The technical side went further into Java internals and modern language features. I covered OOP, collections, concurrency, streams, and even memory management. Overall it felt like they wanted both correctness and an engineering style that’s easy to

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