I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Cloudera (San Francisco, CA) in Mar 2018
Interview
The initial recruiter call includes standard questions about my work experience and what I am looking for in my next role. I was puzzled when the recruiter mentioned that I did not have enterprise software experience (which I did, but with a different vendor than what they were looking for) and was skeptical that I fit the job position. Anyway, they decided to move forward with the technical phone interview.
The technical phone interview was rather unpleasant. The interviewer called in 5 minutes late. We also experienced technical difficulty setting up the collaborative coding tool. After a few minutes resolving this issue, I finally got the chance to type in my solution. I explained my approach and provided examples to test my code. The code ran fine with my test cases. However, the interviewer seemed dissatisfied with my solution, saying it was wrong, but was unable to point out why my logic was wrong nor provide counter-examples to fail my code. Time ran out, and I was left with the conclusion that they would not move forward with the process, and the impression that the interviewer was not knowledgable about the interview question he's asking.
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Cloudera (Manipal) in Sep 2025
Interview
It had 3 rounds. 2 technical and 1 managerial/technical. Both the technical rounds includes a DSA question each. First round they asked me solve the DSA question followed by the question I could solve in the OT.
Since my entire resume was ML based, all the rounds focused on ml fundamentals.
I applied through other source. I interviewed at Cloudera
Interview
three total rounds: Technical screen --> phone screen --> final round onsite; leetcode style questions and standard behavioral questions. Fast process and technical questions are framed with relevance to the work being done. Everyone was very friendly and helpful
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Cloudera
Interview
The test had 3 coding questions:
2 DSA
1 SQL
Ranging from moderate level to hard level
Time limit was 75 minutes.
SQL question: From the given table named product, with one column as product _id and another column as price, find the Second Highest Price product. Different products can have same prices.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
SQL question: From the given table named product, with one column as product _id and another column as price, find the Second Highest Price product. Different products can have same prices.