Cloudera·Software Engineer

Cloudera Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

San Francisco, CAPosted Aug 2015 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After making it past an initial coding challenge, I had a phone screen with an engineer from the team.

The recruiter had been flexible and easy to work with, and I appreciated that right away. On the call itself, the engineer showed up about twenty minutes late and apologized, explaining they’d been held up by another meeting. I had mentioned beforehand that I had another meeting after the call and couldn’t run long, and even with the delay they seemed to understand the constraint.

The technical question centered on a string problem that I solved in a pretty straightforward way using recursion, and it included unit test cases. The vibe was pretty no-nonsense, but the engineer also felt a

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