Right People and Trajectory, Sales org weird - Mid Market Account Executive Cloudflare Employee Review

4.0
Jan 23, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Great technology, incredible vision for market - Smart, impressive people everywhere - Sales management understands sales org problems and is patient with new hire struggles - Constant updates/investments for products - United Healthcare paid for - RSUs and ESPP should pay off in future - Way happier here than last company

Cons

- Sales org is messed up generally (low standards of salesforce hygiene, many people lazy in terms of activity), probably more so to so much scaling/growth - No territories today (you could work accounts in California or Vermont) and you have to find YOUR OWN accounts, start book from SCRATCH - Lots of confusion/conflict with ROE due to lack of territories - Constant struggle to find (even sometimes to keep) accounts - Due to above, difficult first 12-18 months for new hires - More of a product-led org than sales-led (CEO does not like sales people) - BDR org has extremely low standards. No cold calling, they do not even CALL leads, they will just email. Don't qualify their own opps, they just get a reply and let AE qualify with prospect. They're not hungry to get opps or even close deals - No 401k match - OFFICE FIRST company (weird about remote) but that is changing finally

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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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