My interview with Cloudera went a little differently than it conventionally does. My understanding is that, normally, Cloudera likes to give a phone screen, fly you out to HQ in Palo Alto, and have a 4-5 person technical interview process. For various personal reasons, I was unable to fly out in the timeframe they wanted. They were very accommodating and worked to do a remote interview Google Hangouts and phone calls when necessary. I had 5 technical interviewers who asked me a gamut of technical questions, ranging from hands on live coding to heady conceptual questions that demonstrated the understanding of OS level concepts. I personally thought the interview process was pretty typical for a Silicon Valley company, and I didn't find it particularly brutal or unexpected.