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      Software Engineer Interview

      Feb 24, 2024
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      San Francisco, CA
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Cloudflare (San Francisco, CA) in Oct 2023

      Interview

      I had great hopes for Cloudflare. Unfortunately, this has been the worst interviewing experience in terms of organization, delivering on promises and valuing your time I've had by far. My process started out with a coding challenge I spent a significant amount of time on, after which I was invited to many more interviews, all but one of which were at night in my local time. First off, the interviewing schedule I was sent was wrong in all sorts of ways. Some meetings had the wrong length, some had the wrong description and attendees, and some just had a completely wrong time. This caused me to miss interviews as well as have the wrong expectations going into some of them. I had to call multiple times to try and correct this, but every single time I was sent a new schedule that was wrong in new and different ways, so I ended up just asking my interviewers for what their schedule said. On top of a messed-up schedule, even though I was told there would be comprehensive feedback at the end of the interviewing process, given that you have to spend a significant amount of personal time in it, after my last interview with the hiring manager, where I was again told that feedback would follow, I heard nothing for weeks, so I sent an email asking about the status. I was told to wait. This goes on for a while. Every couple of weeks I send an email asking for a status, each time being told to wait longer. A couple of times I'm told I will hear back on a specific day, but those were empty promises, and I never did. Eventually, months after my last interview, they managed to call me. The call lasted about 5 minutes. I was told that "sadly", someone else was chosen, and details as well as feedback about my interview process would follow. Of course, again, I never heard anything. This company will ask for multiple workdays worth of your time, on top of you having to take initiative to fix your interview schedule, only to give empty promises over and over again and to treat you like an absolute commodity. This is somewhat unsurprising for a company their size, but Cloudflare seems to try very hard to portray an image of being different, while their recent layoffs prove that this couldn't be further from the truth.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Basic questions about browsers, DNS, routing etc.
      Answer question
      2

      Other Software Engineer Interview Reviews for Cloudflare

      Software Engineer Interview

      Jul 22, 2026
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Cloudflare

      Interview

      Good interview process - quick call with eng manager, followed up by a medium difficulty leetcode question, followed by a technical interview with 4 engineers and a system design interview

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Describe a technical project that you've worked on
      Answer question

      Software Engineer Interview

      Mar 28, 2026
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Austin, TX
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied through other source. I interviewed at Cloudflare (Austin, TX)

      Interview

      screening was not leetcode style problem, in loop round they asked me to implement problem which i was able to do it within time, system design round was conversational. amazing company to interview with. learned lot of things about them along the way

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      data structure algorithms problem, and standard behavioral questions.
      Answer question
      1

      Software Engineer Interview

      Apr 8, 2026
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Austin, TX
      Declined offer
      Positive experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied online. I interviewed at Cloudflare (Austin, TX) in Mar 2026

      Interview

      Started with a 30-minute conversation with the hiring manager. He was amazing, very friendly, and the questions were mostly resume-based. The next round was a 1-hr TPS interview with an engineering manager. It was a HackerRank-style question (not typical LeetCode), but practicing LeetCode definitely helped in choosing the right data structures. After that, I had a conversation with the recruiter to discuss salary, location, next steps, etc. The interview loop consisted of 5 rounds: 30 mins: Culture fit (behavioral questions), 45 mins: PM interview (behavioral, focused on collaboration with PMs), 45 mins: Debugging round (debugging a working system - fairly easy), 1 hour: System design (medium to hard), 45 mins: AI-assisted coding round Overall, all the interviewers were great to interact with and very supportive throughout the process. The AI-assisted round was similar to debugging, but they expected me to “vibe-code” using AI to identify issues and fix bugs or add features. After clearing these rounds, the final steps included an office visit and a 15-minute call with a CXO.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Tell me about a project you worked on recently and what were the challenges? Tell me about a time you made a mistake or failed. Why Cloudflare and why this team? How do you approach building a feature when you don't fully understand user needs?
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      1

      Cloudflare interviews FAQs

      • Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Cloudflare with 3.1 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 42% positive. To compare, the company-average is 35.9% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
      • Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 31 days to get hired, when considering 72 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 Software Engineer according to 72 Glassdoor interviews include:

        Phone interview:  24%

        One on one interview:  23%

        Skills test:  17%

        Group panel interview:  11%

        Personality test:  9%

        Presentation:  5%

        Background check:  5%

        IQ intelligence test:  2%

        Other:  1%

        Drug test:  1%

      • Here are the most commonly searched roles for interview reports -

        1. Account Executive(127) ;
        2. Business Development Representative (BDR)(62) ;
        3. Systems Engineer(56) ;
        4. Sales(39) ;
        5. Solutions Engineer(29) ;
        6. Technical Support Engineer(27) ;
        7. Software Engineer(26) ;
        8. BDR(20) ;
        9. Enterprise Account Executive(19) ;
        10. Product Manager(15) ;
        11. Customer Success Manager(11) ;
        12. Customer Success Manager (CSM)(10) ;
        13. Senior Account Executive(10) ;
        14. Engineer(9) ;
        15. Engineering Manager(8) .


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