Founder Mode, but awesome peeps! - Lead Ux Designer Cloudflare Employee Review

3.0
Nov 19, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

People are sincere, smart, fun, and lovely.

Cons

CEO (Matthew) micro-manages product, which creates a lot of internal chaos. Companies can be nimble AND sane. On the 3-point scale of Abdication-Delegation-Micromanagement, Matthew is far over on the side of Micromanagement... which impacts every team, and at this point in Cloudflare's growth just is not necessary to remain competitive. Cloudflare also does not support professional development for management—so if you're a manager matriculating up to a Director role, you get no guidance beyond legal Teflon, for hiring managers. The CEO insists they pay people enough to fund their own growth support—but that's not an industry standard, and from a billionaire with poor management skills, himself, it's kind of chin-rubby.

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5.0
Jun 9, 2026
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Pros

New Tech, Diversity and many learning opportunities

Cons

Its hard to learn all these new stuff

3.0
Jul 20, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

smart, hardworking people, great vision, great foundation of tech

Cons

unrealistic expectations, heavy handed micro-management, sometimes abusive sales culture, way too much turnover, disproportionate territory distribution, you will wear TOO MANY hats in sales execution

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