Systems Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Cloudflare with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 53% positive. To compare, the company-average is 35.7% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Systems Engineer roles take an average of 49 days to get hired, when considering 17 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Cloudflare overall takes an average of 39 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Cloudflare as a Systems Engineer according to 17 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 26%
One on one interview: 21%
Group panel interview: 18%
Skills test: 16%
Presentation: 8%
Drug test: 5%
Personality test: 3%
IQ intelligence test: 3%
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Although I ultimately accepted Cloudflare's offer (due to experiencing layoffs early on in the pandemic), it was still a horrendous experience and process. My recruiter for some reason preferred to copy and paste templated answers to me whenever I had questions about the process or the topics that will be covered in each round. This was someone who was with the company for 8 years! This misinformation even extended to him saying "there will be no coding challenges" for the onsite, but there ended up being two of them for me. The onsite for me was very easy, basic data structure manipulations and algorithms. I only later on found out on the job that this was a red flag - the team I joined was a pretty low performing team with a very huge cultural issue, I ended up leaving roughly two years later.
solid, very nice interviewers, technical s were interesting and collaborative. Overall less leetcody than general and felt more like a conversation/ pair programming. Recruiters were very slow though. Most non coding interviews were very fluffy i.e just talk through your resume/ a project you worked on. There was an emphasis on how you like to work, i.e what youre looking for in both a team and work in general.
Total 7+ rounds. First recruiter round. Rejected after second round(hiring manager).
Recruiter round focussed on Cloudflare, comp details, rounds of interviews and few questions about profile
HM:
Why are you looking for a new role?
Why cloudflare?
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
HM:
Why are you looking for a new role?
Why cloudflare?
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Cloudflare
Interview
The process included about 8 interviews with different people but mostly with the team member. The technical questions were fair, not very hard. And the also the interviewers were polite and professional.
However, the whole process tool about 10 hours, and it was scheduled in a week or two, so you need to allocate a huge amount of time. This was a big issue specially, if you need to plan it during the working hours.
Once all the interviews finished, there was no update for a week, and then finally a cold email saying No! without any feedback or explanation.
It's totally fine to say "No" in an interview process, but given 8 rounds of interviews and many hours, first the silence period and second, not providing any feedback and explanation was a negative experience.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Have you experienced any mistake and how did you handled it?