Cloudflare reviews

3.3

47% would recommend to a friend

(1,011 total reviews)

Matthew Prince

47% approve of CEO

52% positive business outlook

Cloudflare has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 1,011 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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1.0
Oct 27, 2016

Declining rapidly

Anonymous employee
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Pros

From a purely technical point of view, the work is interesting and engaging. Once upon a time it was evening meaningful. Now, most of the big problems have been solved and it's more about sustaining what has been built.

Cons

As previous reviews have stated, basically "senior" management. I use that with quotes because it should imply people with experience, but this group is completely juvenile. Again, agree with a previous poster, the legal team is just odd and they take to Twitter and Facebook constantly in a way that makes you think their bonus is tied to how cool they can make them appear to the CEO. It's particularly bad lately with the election coming up as some of the in-house team are posting obviously partisan articles in ways that give the impression that it's also the company's position. If anyone should understand the rules of social media you'd think it's the attorneys...but, definitely not in this case.

4.0
Apr 21, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

CloudFlare is a small company (100 engineers, another 150 in other roles) which has a big and growing impact on the Internet -- for the good. Rather than locking website operators into a single "stack" from Amazon, Microsoft, Google, or other hosting providers, CloudFlare lets websites choose how to host their site and then get top-quality network edge performance and security between their users and server infrastructure, for a price ranging from free (for millions of sites with less-demanding requirements) to about 10% of what incumbents charge for Enterprise customers. The biggest reason to work at CloudFlare is to be a part of making the Internet a better place. In contrast to a lot of other companies, CloudFlare has an extremely permissive terms of service, valuing free speech over everything else. While there are a lot of sites on CloudFlare which people find objectionable (for varying reasons), on balance, having open access at the network layer makes the Internet a better place. There are some big engineering problems to solve -- handling a huge volume of web requests means every other support system is also huge -- so it's a great place to get to work on hard challenges, the latest technology, and with some really smart people. CloudFlare has both a high media profile and a large userbase, so if you tell someone you work at CloudFlare, you're likely to get a positive response.

Cons

The biggest problem with CloudFlare is a legacy of flat organizational structure. For a long time, CloudFlare clung to a "flat" organization. This was great back when the company had 25 or 50 employees, but broke down at 100-150. CloudFlare now has a top-tier VP Engineering and some solid engineering managers, but is still implementing the kind of structure a company doing as much as CloudFlare does needs to have. For a long time, CloudFlare had below-market office environment (a cramped, poorly maintained space), but after 18 months of delays, we finally moved into an amazing dedicated building a block away. People visit and compare it favorably to any company in tech. If you want to be in San Francisco, the location is hard to beat -- a block from Giants Stadium and 2 blocks from Caltrain. CloudFlare cash compensation is essentially at-market. Equity compensation is less than market, but the company is also on a solid financial footing and good growth trajectory (because people actually need, value, and pay for the product), so it's hard to directly compare to more "bubble-based" valuations at other companies. Benefits are decent (free snacks, but only one free meal/week). Good health insurance, no other perks.

1.0
Apr 15, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Innovative technology which is important for a large internet group in terms of DDOS.

Cons

Tough to keep in touch with the core principles which got the company started. Uncomfortable churn rate at a high engineering level.

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