I was an early employee at cloudera (first year, first dozen). I also committed to most of the Hadoop projects, including a commit bit.
- Hadoop was software done wrong. The tests took days to run and never passed. It was documented horribly.
- The open source companies all knee capped other.
- Hadoop destroyed Apache's rep.
cloudera taught me a lot about how not to build a team and a company. Although Mike Olson was the greatest ceo I ever worked for (as opposed to founding a company with) the rest of the company became horribly political. We brought in managers from Oracle. We had crazy personal projects that went out of control like kudu and impalla. It breaks my heart
I ended up talking to one of the original investors afterwords and found out cloudera was a boy band startup. By the time I was in the way out the cto was playing counterstrike every day as I was heading home.
To this day there's some amazing engineers there and I just don't understand why
> cloudera taught me a lot about how not to build a team and a company. ...
It would be interesting if you are willing to share more about this. Are managers from Oracle play the reason? Did they bring you unnecessary disciplines against engineers? Any examples why you describe cloudera then "horribly political"?
"Are managers from Oracle play the reason?" -> I think bringing in a bunch of managers from bigco to shape up your startup is nearly as bad as bringing in "experienced engineers" because you have too many young engineers. Diversity is strength, but so is culture.
"Did they bring you unnecessary disciplines against engineers" -> What's this mean?
Any examples why you describe Cloudera then "horribly political" -> Not off the top of my head actually i just remembered it burning me
- Hadoop was software done wrong. The tests took days to run and never passed. It was documented horribly. - The open source companies all knee capped other. - Hadoop destroyed Apache's rep.
cloudera taught me a lot about how not to build a team and a company. Although Mike Olson was the greatest ceo I ever worked for (as opposed to founding a company with) the rest of the company became horribly political. We brought in managers from Oracle. We had crazy personal projects that went out of control like kudu and impalla. It breaks my heart
I ended up talking to one of the original investors afterwords and found out cloudera was a boy band startup. By the time I was in the way out the cto was playing counterstrike every day as I was heading home.
To this day there's some amazing engineers there and I just don't understand why