Engineering - Engineering Cloudflare Employee Review

1.0
May 28, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Interesting product - Unlimited PTO (whether you can take it is another matter) - Close to Caltrain and Muni rail

Cons

Cloudflare does not have mission values or company culture that promote harmony among all employees. There is a very silo-ed and clique culture within the company and it seems that those who are early employees, hold higher level position or gained favor from the CEO, will have preferential treatments than the others. The tone from the top seems to reflect this: - The CEO berating engineers in the company wiki for every one to see. - A public tweet from the management publicly making fun of a company that tried to do business with Cloudflare - An offer was extended and rescinded without explanation (search Glassdoor for this review) If you see search for past reviews, you will notice common theme on what many people think of the CEO (Hint: Arrogant). People are leaving in droves and quickly replaced by other newcomers and the cycle continues, including high ranking employees. If you go to LinkedIn, you can see how many people have left Cloudflare and begin to see the pattern. The company may have a good product, but be aware of the "culture".

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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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