However, there are two areas where it's time they started paying attention: 1) quality of front-line managers; 2) sexism throughout most levels of the organization. Interestingly, these two problem areas feed each other. I've heard front-line managers openly make racist remarks--not worker bees, but managers, who represent the company. For example, I heard a manager of a team of 14 employees make the following remark openly without lowering his voice, "It would be a lot better if there weren't so many <color> people in PA!" When this male manager said this, everyone around him looked uncomfortable, but he is a manager--none felt they could really correct him. I've also heard managers openly diss people who report to them to other direct reports on their team. Seems like a real morale-killing practice. Who wouldn't think to themselves, "Wow, I wonder what they say about me when I'm not in the room?" As for sexism, it's like a heavy blanket lying over the building at times. It's subtle. After all, most Cloudera employees are well educated, intelligent, and quite sophisticated, but it is clear that women have to be at least 50% to 75% better at anything to be "part of the team." This kind of pervasive sexism, leads to "Queen Bee" behavior so that even the few female leaders who are brought on, respond to the sexism by trying to distance themselves from other women and by trying to be "one of the boys."