Toxic management and high turnover - Sales Cloudflare Employee Review

1.0
Jun 23, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good product, modernised network design

Cons

Toxic management, cutthroat culture where missing numbers results in a PIP within just one or two quarters, forcing colleagues to fight each other rather than cooperate. Management applies almost the same quota to everyone, unfairly expecting a greenfield rep to deliver the same revenue as someone managing a million-dollar legacy account. This unrealistic pressure has caused massive AE turnover, completely exhausting customers who are sick of constantly dealing with a new AE.

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5.0
May 1, 2026
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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
Jun 12, 2026
Recommend
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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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