I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Cloudera (Harrisonburg, VA) in Feb 2015
Interview
A series of remote interviews using codepad and skype. Interviewers were helpful and willing to accept variations from what they thought was the ideal answer, just as long as you could back up your reasoning. I was interviewed by various members of my team whom I had the pleasure of working with later.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How could one efficiently navigate and retrieve the dependencies of a number of services provided by CDH? (there were many tiers and dependencies)
I applied through university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Cloudera (Manipal) in Sept 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.