Pros
1. Top-notch engineering team (original folks from Hortonworks) 2. Lots of good talent left in Sales/Solution Engineering, PS, Support, etc 3. Opportunity to get exposed to lots of tech and use cases (not typically possible with a fast-paced <$1B company) 4. Top-notch marketing
Cons
1. Cloudera -prior to merger with Hortonworks- behaved like a very large, slow company with no decision making muscle--every group/BU used to run independently and each tiny BU used to behave like a $B org, managed by junior GMs with no prior P&L experience. 2. Takes forever to make important strategic goals beyond saying "we want to be a cloud-first company" while neglecting the core install-base. 3. Needs a good CEO who can clean up the executive team and bring experienced execs who can scale to $B+ company