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Q&A With Qubole Employees
Qubole employees answer questions about what life is like behind the scenes at their company, including queries about culture, leadership, professional development, and compensation.
How employees describe working at Qubole
Pleasant. Constructive. Helpful. Enjoyable. Fun teammates.
Emotionally draining and tired of no marketing support.
'Lack of respect': Except for a group of people who keep appreciating and glorifying each other, you will feel excluded.
The best place I have worked so far and easily one of the best places to work in bat area
Q&A With Qubole Employees
IDX: 25 TOT: 49
What was the most difficult question that was asked during your interview at Qubole?
There was no difficult question. There was only 1 funny question - "Have you faced gender based discrimination at any previous employment ?"
How would you compare interviewing at Qubole to other places you've interviewed?
It was a good interview process. Except for 1 weird question, I remember that day as a good one.
What does the ideal candidate in the Engineering department look like at Qubole?
Good systems engineer, know how to troubleshoot and debug, know how to make and talk through a good design question during the interview, good at reading and writing code.
In your opinion, what are the most common interview questions that Qubole asks?
The questions will be relating to distributed systems, database internals, Map Reduce, Spark, race conditions, may be some protocols such as Paxos, Raft etc (just knowing what these are for may be enough).
How flexible is your work schedule at Qubole?
Work schedule is generally flexible. You need to finish your work, you can choose whatever schedule that fits you. Support team's schedule can be hectic because of the sheer volume of tickets and the team is terribly under-staffed and Qubole keeps firing people they don't like for small reasons.
What kind of interview questions do they ask when hiring someone in the Engineering department at Qubole?
I think they ask basic distributed systems questions, Map reduce, Spark, memory management, basic database internal questions.
What Engineering department questions did Qubole ask during your job interview?
1. Asked technical questions from previous jobs. Big data questions related to Spark and Hive. Gave me a java program to debug. 2. Asked me this very strange question : Have you faced gender based discrimination during any previous employment ?
How helpful was your Engineering team when you were first hired at Qubole?
The team is generally helpful to each other. Except for the blaming which some teams do towards each other, the teams consist of generally good people.
What's the work from home policy like at Qubole?
Work From home for favorites are allowed. The non-favorites are always questioned for even the smallest things even if you are putting in more effort and producing better results than the favorites.
What's the internship program like at Qubole?
I have seen interns having fun at Qubole.
How innovative is Qubole?
Qubole is quite innovative.
How does Qubole measure success and growth in the Engineering department?
This is one aspect Qubole fails terribly. There is a complaining culture , means only those who complain about others get appreciated. There are many who silently do their job without complaining about others, even picking up work undone or half-done by others who never get any appreciation at all. Friends blowing up achievements of each other - this is what is happening. Qubole can improve a lot on this front.
What skills do you need to be successful in the Engineering department at Qubole?
The Engineering and support engineering department are pretty system engineering oriented. You need to be well versed at looking at logs, debugging, troubleshooting, reading and writing code, distributed systems and database internals. I don't know what skill is required to handle the complaining culture though - which seems to be the only negative, but it is a major one.
Why work for Qubole?
The system engineering team is doing some phenomenal projects. There is great potential in the engineering and support engineering teams in Qubole and the product is valuable for its supportabilty and ease of use. It is a pre-ipo company and its shares could be worth a fortune in some time. There is some level of pleasantness and youth in the work culture. There is a complaining work culture, but I never noticed it critically until when it came to exit procedures which were extremely mean and hurtful. If you make friends and successfully make cliques, it is possible to have a pleasant work experience in Qubole.
How's the vacation policy at Qubole?
Unlimited vacation policy.
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Should I work at Qubole?
29% of Qubole employees would encourage their friends to become coworkers, whereas 14% are neutral and 57% would not recommend working at Qubole to their friends.
| 29% | Promoters |
|---|---|
| 14% | Passive |
| 57% | Detractors |
