RUN from this place to somewhere better! - Anonymous employee Cloudflare Employee Review

1.0
Jan 26, 2022
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Learning the products they make

Cons

Takes up to 15 interviews reach 30 min with 15 different people with high likelihood of being a contracter and no possibility of FTE. They hire white people, regardless of qualifications, over people of color especially for engineering and management roles. Very little direction or boundaries. No clear direction or understanding between employees or departments. Culture sucks. CIO argues with and embarrasses employees on company chat instead of setting real policies for everyone to follow. All company wide meetings are a joke- and center on narcissism of the founders.

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Pros

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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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