Spoke to a recruiter over the phone and gave the recruiter an overview of my career for about 10 minutes. The recruiter then asked me my current salary and I mentioned that I have a personal policy not to disclose that information for privacy reasons but would like to be paid approximately what Cloudera's main competitor (Hortonworks) is paying its employees for a similar position. I then let the recruiter know what Hortonworks was paying, according to Glassdoor's salary listings. The recruiter then became very aggressive, and asked me two more times about my current salary level becoming increasingly more aggressive each time and even becoming somewhat "thuggish" as the call progressed. The recruiter even had the nerve to instruct me to "go find my tax return" and tell the recruiter what dollar amount was listed in the return's "salary" section. The recruiter stated that "every" person interviewed by Cloudera must disclose his or her current salary in order for the interview process to move forward. I mentioned that I felt this line of questioning was a bit inappropriate and antiquated - and was similar to asking someone if they were married, gay, Muslim, etc. Then the recruiter completely shut down the interview and did not even ask me if I had any questions about the job, Cloudera's work environment, etc. The recruiter also mentioned that things would probably not move forward, but that the recruiter would follow up with me within one business day. Then, two business days after my call with the recruiter I received an anonymous email from Cloudera Recruiting stating that the hiring process would not be moving forward. Note to Cloudera Executives: Based on this experience, it seems like Cloudera may actually be "contributing" to Silicon Valley's gender pay gap problem when Cloudera should really be trying to "eliminate" the issue.

Great experience overall! Full process consisted of an initial conversation with a recruiter followed by two rounds of phone interviews with two interviews per round. First interview was a personality/role fit interview. The second was a more technical interview to dive deeper into my skills/experience and how I would tackle specific tasks that would be crucial to the role (where would I start in developing a course that I had little experience with before). The third interview was very similar, but with the most senior member of the team, and the final interview was with the hiring manager. Hear back fairly quickly that they thought the role would be a good fit. Throughout the process, the recruiter was very up front and transparent about everything, and was very responsive with any questions I had. I've interviewed at plenty of places that drag out the interview process, and provide little to no transparency, and Cloudera was not one of them.