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    MapR Technologies Reviews

    Updated 8 October, 2018
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    MapR Technologies CEO John Schroeder
    John Schroeder
    29 Ratings

    133 Employee Reviews

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    Pros

    • "Great and successful product while good work-life balance" (in 10 reviews)

    • "The product is really a game changer in Big Data spaces" (in 17 reviews)

    Cons

    • "Company Culture lost in the management swap out" (in 5 reviews)

    • "However, management is very open to flex hours which makes work/life balance possible" (in 3 reviews)

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    1. "Not for the in the box thinkers"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I have been working at MapR Technologies full-time

      Pros

      Challenging, diverse, Great people, Rewarding, Great technology

      Cons

      Long hours, Vision limited, Marketing alignment

      Advice to Management

      Look beyond the US market for innovation.

    2. "Sales Role"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Doesn't Recommend
      Neutral Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I have been working at MapR Technologies full-time

      Pros

      Great technology and in a hot space

      Cons

      Product led Company so sales & marketing are a bit leaderless

      Advice to Management

      hire heavy hitting growth experts in Sales, Marketing and Product strategy

      3. Join the MapR Technologies team
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    3. Helpful (1)

      "Management"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Doesn't Recommend
      Negative Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I have been working at MapR Technologies full-time

      Pros

      Good work/life balance (if you know how to fight for your own good, don't be afraid to escalate to HR)

      Cons

      - Unfair performance evaluation: very very very little bonus (50% in stock which is basically no value) and it's not based on how good your performance is or how hard you work. It's literally based on management's discretion (aka if they like you or not, could be nothing even when you are a super star in the team).
      - Layoffs: LOTS OF layoffs due to company not performing or even politics
      - Security/Privacy: management overrides lots of internal controls in the company. Do not expect your email privacy is secured in this company.
      - No room to grow: management is trying to secure their jobs so acting like control freak and unwilling to develop talented people.
      - Lousy treatment when you give 2-week notice: they started to make you work EVERY single minute (even when you are sick or have emergency) and take away your bonus no matter how good your performance have been/how hard you have worked

      Advice to Management

      Look at the turnover rate . Be fair to the talents and you need to develop them.

    4. "No one is responsible for anything"

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      Current Employee - Sales in Santa Clara, CA (US)
      Current Employee - Sales in Santa Clara, CA (US)
      Recommends
      Negative Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I have been working at MapR Technologies full-time (More than a year)

      Pros

      - great technology, strongly differentiated
      - smart folks
      - strong international business
      - ceo is a smart guy

      Cons

      - no one is responsible
      - marketing is not working at all
      - lots of politics
      - no vision

      Advice to Management

      - make sure people in sales can actually earn money with realistic expectations
      - keep your promises

    5. "Software Engineer"

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      Current Employee - Software Engineer in Santa Clara, CA (US)
      Current Employee - Software Engineer in Santa Clara, CA (US)
      Neutral Outlook
      No opinion of CEO

      I have been working at MapR Technologies full-time (Less than a year)

      Pros

      Flexibility,Good product,Gym,Game room ,Lunch card

      Cons

      Policies not that transparent, Compensations and benefits are not great

    6. "Excellent Technology Vision"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I have been working at MapR Technologies full-time (More than 5 years)

      Pros

      Schroeder's technology vision
      Very happy customers
      Operational agility to make necessary changes to the business
      Very smart people

      Cons

      There are some bullies among us
      No women on the BoD or at the C-level, few women everywhere else - less than 20%
      Culture doesn't seem to be valued by executives
      No 401k matching
      Ridiculously small bonus program

      Advice to Management

      Deal with the bullies, recruit more women, and let's either go public or sell this company.

    7. "MapR is a place for influencers"

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      Current Employee - Technical Marketing Engineer in Remote, OR (US)
      Current Employee - Technical Marketing Engineer in Remote, OR (US)
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I have been working at MapR Technologies full-time (More than 3 years)

      Pros

      Mapr is a place for influencers. The kind of people who work at MapR and have grown to become experts in data management and data science, and they're pushing the envelope to make a data platform that performs faster, scales better, and is easier to manage. They are sophisticated people who think about analytics differently because they take for granted how the MapR platform reduces the barriers that often block people from harnessing value from their data. Important companies are using MapR to build applications that do amazing things with data. That exposure to the cutting-edge of analytics and machine learning is what gives people at MapR a unique perspective in today's data driven world.

      It's great to be part of an organization that plays such a central role in so many marketable skills, like machine learning and data science.

      Another nice thing: the MapR culture embraces work/life balance. People take full advantage of the unlimited PTO policy. Managements treats us like professionals, so there is a lot of trust.

      Cons

      Too many people leave MapR. They learn really marketable skills, then understandably, use them to find new jobs with higher salaries.

    8. "Great Company on the Leading Edge of Technology with Great Growth Opportunities"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I have been working at MapR Technologies full-time (Less than a year)

      Pros

      Plenty to learn both from the technology the company is building as well as how to apply it to real problems at massive scale.

      Cons

      Certain people in management are more concerned that they have the idea rather than letting their team create and foster an idea. Response often take the form of "I did that exact thing back at this other huge company 20 years ago". This generally creates the problem that those people are living in the past. This is NOT all managers, but there are a couple like that within the org.

      Advice to Management

      Get the right people for those upper management roles.

    9. "good place to work on big data"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee in San Jose, CA (US)
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee in San Jose, CA (US)
      Recommends
      Neutral Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I worked at MapR Technologies (More than 3 years)

      Pros

      Highly innovative approach to data ingest, store, security and analytics. Fast and scalable.

      Cons

      Company needs to push their innovations harder in the market and emphasize the many weaknesses in pure open source plays

      Advice to Management

      keep innovating and market much more aggressively

    10. "Great company that is headed in the right direction"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I have been working at MapR Technologies full-time

      Pros

      1. John Schroeder (founder) is back as CEO
      2. World-class product
      3. Huge market opportunity
      4. MapR has the talent to execute and become a massive player in this space

      Cons

      1. The previous executive leadership group was absolutely clueless. This doesn't seem to be an issue with John back.

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