Think carefully before joining - Account Executive Cloudflare Employee Review

1.0
Mar 18, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Company is growing Stock tends to be on the up Products work majority of the time Solutions Engineering team is very good and help where they can

Cons

Accounts are unfairly assigned to reps here for longer - so you don't get your full comp Finance runs the company and sets the targets and doesn't understand the real world - so you don't get your full comp Targets are unrealistic and you have no support - so you don't get your full comp AE's are expected to do new logo, expansion, customer care, basically everything - so you don't get your full comp Forced to run things through partners who are not incentivised to work with you - so you don't get your full comp CSM is non-existent and understaffed - so you don't get your full comp Marketing (other than events) provides no help at all and have different pipeline targets - so you don't get your full comp BDR's are not aligned with AE's and are doing quantity vs quality - so you don't get your full comp Exec leadership has no diversity and is a boys club all from Palo Alto or Altyrex - so you don't get your full comp Culture of fear of losing your job so you work out of fear - so you don't get your full comp Undercover layoffs which are not announced publicly so the company looks good No career path for majority of employees

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
Jun 12, 2026
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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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