Great mission, but hides glaring flaws - Anonymous employee Cloudflare Employee Review

2.0
Feb 6, 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Genuinely great products. Big mission. Good folks who come for the mission and believe in it. Transparency is real and appreciated. Incredibly well situated in the market.

Cons

The "what" of the mission is amazing. The "how" of getting there is a joke. Many departments don't have enough staff to function, meaning the timelines of IT, HR, etc. is either "right now" or "in 3 months". Planning (or prioritizing) often gets ridiculed, literally. "Tickets are great, but what work are you doing right now?" You try to fit real work in between cycles of hype and thrash. Toxic, toxic leadership traits, which you transparently see trickling down and even rewarded. Everyone I've talked to lately is looking for a new job (even in this tech economy).

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Cons

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Pros

- Strong platform - Mostly friendly and smart people - Good salary, but substandard benefits

Cons

- Strong culture of favoritism: if you’re not an OG or coming in from Palo Alto, you’ll face an uphill battle in sales. - Sales culture is terribly toxic, political, and cliquey, especially with the Palo Alto Networks invasion. - Ridiculous internal processes and poorly designed tools (still use more spreadsheets than tools, quotes can take weeks and I’m not kidding) - Zero sales tools (No Outreach, Gong, good luck even getting Zoom Info) - Substandard BDR team with 12:1 ratios of BDR to AE. Got zero set meetings in over 1 year with our team’s BDR.

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