Is Cloudflare a good company to work for?

Cloudflare has an overall rating of 3.2 out of 5, based on over 1,122 reviews left anonymously by employees. This rating has decreased by 3% over the last 12 months. 46% of employees would recommend working at Cloudflare to a friend and 51% have a positive outlook for the business. The best reviews about Cloudflare have been left by employees working as Systems Engineer , Solutions Engineer and Product Manager .

Does Cloudflare pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, Cloudflare employees rate their compensation and benefits as 3.4 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at Cloudflare. This rating has been stable over the past 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at Cloudflare?

46% of Cloudflare employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated Cloudflare 3.2 out of 5 for work life balance, 3.0 for culture and values and 3.1 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at Cloudflare?

Account Executive (127) , Business Development Representative (BDR) (62) , Systems Engineer (56) , Sales (39) , Solutions Engineer (29) , Technical Support Engineer (27) , Software Engineer (26) , BDR (20) , Enterprise Account Executive (18) , Product Manager (15) , Customer Success Manager (11) , Customer Success Manager (CSM) (10) , Senior Account Executive (10) , Engineer (9) , Engineering Manager (8)

What are the pros of working at Cloudflare according to real employee reviews?

"People are great and always helpful." ((in 109 reviews)); "Great team and company that cares about their employees" ((in 38 reviews)); "Fast Moving Company with good pay and options" ((in 36 reviews)); "working and smart colleagues" ((in 36 reviews)); "Benefits are good" ((in 32 reviews))

What are the cons of working at Cloudflare according to real employee reviews?

"Bad management, few have real experience leading a team" ((in 52 reviews)); "Senior leadership has no strategy other than “Get 'Stuff' Done”" ((in 42 reviews)); "no 401k match either" ((in 24 reviews)); "level manager dictates your experience here, and if your manager is afraid to trust their team because they always need to be the smartest person in the room and can’t handle managing a team member that has a different background than their own; just get out and find a company where you’re empowered." ((in 23 reviews)); "CEO has no respect for sales." ((in 22 reviews))

What are employees saying about Cloudflare layoffs in 2026?

Explore Glassdoor’s employee reviews to understand what current and former employees are saying about Cloudflare layoffs and their outlook for job security at Cloudflare in 2026.

What are the top reviewed Cloudflare locations?

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Cloudflare reviews

3.2

46% would recommend to a friend

(1,013 total reviews)

Matthew Prince

46% approve of CEO

51% positive business outlook

Ratings by category

3.6

Diversity & inclusion

3.4

Compensation and benefits

3.2

Work/Life balance

3.1

Career opportunities

3.0

Culture & values

2.6

Senior management

Cloudflare has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 1,013 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Cloudflare employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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Reviews by job title

1K reviews

5.0

Jan 5, 2017

People. Mission. Product.

Anonymous employee

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Smart teams, great mission, great products. I genuinely like and admire my colleagues. They are interesting, kind, funny people who also happen to be highly technical. Project Galileo, Universal SSL, Free plans for anyone all make me proud to work here.

Cons

Cloudflare isn't for everyone. If you need a defined career path and are looking for robust management programs, you'll be disappointed. Lots to do, not a ton of scaffolding. Some people will love this and thrive. Others won't.

1.0

Dec 24, 2016

QA

Qa engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Nice office. Millions of free customers. Sense of tension rocks. Favoritism from CEO and retribution is great. Inappropriate friend relationships with exec team seem not positive for culture.

Cons

This is one of the worst company environments in tech. Don't take it from me. Read a few reviews. The CEO is a deadly combo of arrogance and insecurity and the entire executive team is afraid of him. So, nothing much good happens here.

1.0

Oct 27, 2016

Declining rapidly

Anonymous employee

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

From a purely technical point of view, the work is interesting and engaging. Once upon a time it was evening meaningful. Now, most of the big problems have been solved and it's more about sustaining what has been built.

Cons

As previous reviews have stated, basically "senior" management. I use that with quotes because it should imply people with experience, but this group is completely juvenile. Again, agree with a previous poster, the legal team is just odd and they take to Twitter and Facebook constantly in a way that makes you think their bonus is tied to how cool they can make them appear to the CEO. It's particularly bad lately with the election coming up as some of the in-house team are posting obviously partisan articles in ways that give the impression that it's also the company's position. If anyone should understand the rules of social media you'd think it's the attorneys...but, definitely not in this case.

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