I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Cloudera (Palo Alto, CA) in Feb 2014
Interview
Standard Interview process: First a phone screen, Then two onsite sessions. Apparently, the head count for the original team I was interviewing for got moved, so I had to interview with another team, which required another set of interviews.
MY panel was really varied. Most of them asked pretty interesting problems in Algorithms and Data Structures and how to parallelize and scale algorithms to many nodes. All of them required me to code on the white board. One interviewer caught me off guard with an idiotic question on OOPS and object/class design.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Standard Silicon valley kind of questions, but they are designed to probe if you can optimize/improve/scale your solution.
I applied through 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 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.
