Cloudera·Software Engineer

Cloudera Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

United StatesPosted Jun 2015 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My first interaction was a phone call with a recruiter that started normally enough—I gave an overview of my background for about ten minutes.

Then the conversation quickly turned to compensation. I was asked about my current salary, and I explained I had a personal policy not to disclose it for privacy reasons. I offered instead to discuss what competitors were paying for similar roles, using publicly available salary data.

The recruiter became increasingly aggressive. They pressed the salary question repeatedly, and the tone escalated until it felt almost intimidating, including instructions to look up a tax return and read back the dollar amount listed. The recruiter also claimed that every person they interview must disclose

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