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MapR Technologies Reviews

3.4

55% would recommend to a friend

(186 total reviews)
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John Schroeder

45% approve of CEO

47% positive business outlook

MapR Technologies has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 186 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The MapR Technologies employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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186 reviews
1.0
12 Jun 2015

A company with no morality

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Pros

There once was a time when good technologies could make up for all the immaturity in a company's hierarchy. Not with MapR. The managers are terminally hopeless.

Cons

Definitely not a place where contributions are rewarded. Very hostile culture, and creativity gives way to tyrannical managers who have much bigger egos than their heads.

1.0
28 Feb 2015
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Pros

Opportunities to contribute to open source technologies, present at conferences, meetups and blog about your work. Hadoop getting considerable traction and MapR is riding the big data wave. This was once a good place to work but the niceties have rapidly eroded away with more rounds of funding increasing revenue pressure from investors. Apache Drill and MapR-DB are the only 2 teams worthy of working for.

Cons

Arrogant, dogmatic and disrespectful engineering executives creating a clique of ex-Informatica employees who get a free ride despite their appalling mediocrity while highly competent individuals who deliver results against phenomenal offs are let go for flimsy personal reasons. This is creating a debilitating impact on employees' morale and psyche. Culture is driven by fear percolating down from Engineering executives with ZERO transparency and decisions (power abuse) made at personal whims & fancies. New features are almost completely driven reactively to keep up with competitors Hortonworks and Cloudera rather than focusing on game changing innovation. Developers become slaves of unreasonable customer demands and requirements. Contributions go unappreciated, people are quick to point fingers of blame when something goes wrong rather than focusing on diffusing and mitigating tension. Appallingly incompetent execs (following waterfall model masked as agile) who just cares about meeting deadlines on an excel sheet without an inkling of understanding of technical challenges and hurdles to solve a software engineering problem. 360 degree feedback is the biggest joke. Even if you list 10 people you worked with as a team and genuinely helped, they ignore all of their feedback and rate you based on pet person's feedback.

1.0
22 Mar 2015
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Pros

Pros - you get a paycheck Some people are genuinely very nice and are trying to make the most out of a bad situation. We are in the same boat experiencing the same unfortunate situation of feeling trapped, unappreciated, and flabbergasted at how this company is run and how managers are allowed to keep their jobs.

Cons

I cant put into words how terrible the engineering management is. They say you can't truly enjoy the light until you've experienced the darkest darkness. When under foolish engineering management at MapR you'll quickly realize that your next job can only be better. Managers in engineering are not technical and thus invite all sorts of problems. Project management team don't even know the basics of the kind of work being done at the company, but still keeps bugging for the status of the tasks with a completely meaningless "smart sheets". If there is any advice that I can offer to current or future engineers is to save yourself the frustration and heartache of working here. It will affect your happiness and carry over to other parts of your life. There is no such thing as boxing this job into a purely "work" category.

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