I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Cloudera (Palo Alto, CA) in Mar 2016
Interview
Friend referred me to his boss. Phone chat with boss. Technical screen with engineer. On site interview with senior management and a few engineers. Met with engineers and managers from two different teams, as well as senior management through director level. Everyone was helpful and friendly through the interview process.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a two dimensional bitmap with a number of bits set, return the number of contiguous regions.
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.
