We’re doing a lot of hiring at Cloudera — we have jobs open in operations, sales, engineering and elsewhere. Hiring well is hard work. We spend a lot of time on it, and have learned a lot about the kind of people we want to bring in. One of the best ways for us to do a good job of hiring is to help you do a good job of applying for a job here.

I’ll begin the post, though, by telling you what doesn’t work. Several times a day, we get an unsolicited email or phone message from a contingency recruiter like this one:

I specialize in the industry and wanted to contact you to let you know that I have a strong candidate for your [deleted] position, and wanted to know if you would like to review the resume that I have? My candidate is interested in interviewing as soon as possible.