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Hortonworks reviews

3.8

68% would recommend to a friend

(284 total reviews)
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Rob Bearden

78% approve of CEO

65% positive business outlook

Hortonworks has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 284 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Hortonworks employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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284 reviews
2.0
Dec 13, 2015

So much potential, but it's a mess

Anonymous employee
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Pros

The technology is exciting, the people are very bright, for the most part. Good benefits/salary and ability to work remotely.

Cons

As others have said, this is a frat house. It's run by VMWare boys who stick together and more are added all the time as others leave or are pushed out. Misogyny is rampant and culturally acceptable, bordering on outright sexual harrassment problems including with higher ups. HR does not deal with it and are actually part of the problem. Women are mansplained to no end, have work lifted from them, are not on the board or in many leadership roles. Add to that no performance reviews thus far (although supposedly this is going to happen), no raises, a terrible habit of pushing people out of the company, execs who seem to just want to cash out while stock tanks, and it looks less and less appealing all the time. There's a major attrition problem due to all this.

3.0
Jun 16, 2016

Misleading, they don't care about their employees

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Lunches are catered tues-thurs, unlimited PTO

Cons

Prior to going public they did a reverse split on the stock, moving my option strike price from about 7.50 a share to $15 a share, and from 8000 options to 4000. Not sure if you have looked at the price recently, but at the time of this review it is at $10.42 a share, so my options are worth nothing. And I got in pre IPO. The company does not care about it's employees, the reverse split only affected lower level employees as the execs all got in when the price was less than $1 a share, so even after the split they still have a strike price of under $2 a share and stand to make a great deal of cash, whereas the low level employees have options with a strike price of $15-$20, which makes them worthless. And the CEO is the least tech-savvy person in the world, not sure what makes him qualified to run the company; he still uses a blackberry from 2007.

2.0
Dec 11, 2015

Great Product - Not so Great Environment

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The technology is second to none. There is a lot of excitement in the marketplace and good messaging around the potential of the product. New products are exciting.

Cons

A very strong good-old-boys club mentality. I would not recommend working here to women, or to men who are sensitive to this type of environment.

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