Growing pains and hiring bad fits - Anonymous employee Cloudflare Employee Review

2.0
Dec 14, 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

really talented colleagues lots to do

Cons

management is often in over their heads resource starvation leads to burn out hires people who do not fit sometimes

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Cloudflare Response
8y
Thanks for sharing your thoughts in this review. I think we’ve gotten really serious about staffing as the recruiting team has doubled in the last few months, and other teams all around the org have grown too. There's always more work to do, but we are always looking to improve. -janet

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