Cloudflare reviews

3.3

47% would recommend to a friend

(1,012 total reviews)

Matthew Prince

46% approve of CEO

51% positive business outlook

Cloudflare has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 1,012 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Cloudflare employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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1K reviews
1.0
May 1, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The people - sales engineers, customer success, the expansion sales team, select sales leaders.

Cons

The CEO, Matt Prince. Read his comments in the Q1 2023 Earnings Release where he blames the sales force rather than his own poor leadership for missing their inflated revenue expectations and the resulting 25% decline in the stock price.

3.0
Sep 26, 2023

Transparent Review '23

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Great product and industry - Benefits are amazing - Hybrid/Remote - Decent Base Salary (50k-55k) - RSU's (Starting is about 15-20k vested through 4 years) - Great Tech Stack (ZoomInfo, Intricately, 6Sense, Salesforce)

Cons

- No work-life balance (Most reps hitting/ exceeding quota are putting in nearly 60+ hours a week) - During this review, Cloudflare is "trimming the fat," so many BDR positions are available. - Initial promises of progression into AE role in 90 Days, but leadership added into the fine print that it will be 18 months. (Not guaranteed either, most AE's are external hires.) - OTE is 75-80k, but as mentioned previously, they are moving into a churn-and-burn business model with their AE's and BDR's. OTE is next to unachievable, which is already low in compensation. - Management isn't the best in leadership and providing training and guidance, leading to many BDRs & AE's losing their jobs. - Horrible restructurings each quarter. Q1, they started pushing a territory model in which most BDRs weren't given accounts/territory until the middle of Q1, leaving a month and a half to hit an entire quota. - Same issue into Q2, poor implementations of Salesloft with little to no help getting onboarded but still expected to hit a full quota, which had also increased drastically. They were realigning and refining territories into Q2 & Q3 as well. - Matthew (CEO speaks poorly of Sales reps and accounts all success to the great product. He went public with this message and announced that because of this, they are laying off the majority of AE's, which also didn't help the BDRs. This left some reps with little to no accounts to work once again. - No one knows what's going on in the org, which may just be how it is in corporate America, but you would expect better for a company as "established" as Cloudflare. This leads to issues with management, as mentioned previously, and poor executions of restructuring and software implementations. - I can't recommend any Sales roles from Cloudflare to anyone now. Hopefully, that will change as new leadership emerges in the next couple of years. - Also, Nepotism is a big thing here.

2.0
May 10, 2023

Great tech, poor gtm execution.

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Talented colleagues, previously a great culture, which is now sadly a thing of the past.

Cons

Payis below average. Comp plans and quotas are woeful. CF are struggling in the downturn. The CEO detests sales, he publicly berates us and our teams and is of the opinion that the portfolio can / should be able to sell itself. (See Q1FY23 Earnings call transcript). Shameful.

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