Challenging problems overshadowed by poor culture and burnout - Senior Systems Engineer Cloudflare Employee Review

2.0
May 8, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Plenty of difficult, interesting problems to solve.

Cons

- You may feel like cattle as you're onboarded—there's a reason. - You will hear about quite a lot of people taking personal leaves of absence—many of them are probably burned out. - Sometimes feels like there are more Technical Project Managers than ICs/software engineers - Laser beam of focus on a particular initiative either places you and your team in the favorable critical path or the crushing responsibility of unblocking the favorable critical team at unsustainable paces. Anything not in the focus of the laser is waysided and left to operate with varying degrees of support. - Poor professional culture. Boisterousness and blaming are often the elevated voices.

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Cons

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2.0
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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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