Cloudera·Software Engineer

Cloudera Software Engineer interview experience

Got offer

Hard

Negative

Palo Alto, CAPosted Oct 2015 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After a phone screen, I went into an onsite process that turned out to be more complicated than I expected.

The original team’s headcount apparently shifted, so I ended up interviewing with a different team, which meant I had to go through another set of onsite interviews. My panel felt really varied, and that made the pacing hard to predict because each person seemed to emphasize different things.

Most of the interviewers pushed into algorithms and data structures, and they also wanted to hear how I’d parallelize and scale solutions across many nodes. Almost every round required me to code directly on a whiteboard, so the pressure wasn’t just explaining ideas—it was producing working logic in

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