The upsides don't outweigh the downsides - Anonymous employee Cloudflare Employee Review

1.0
Nov 30, 2014
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Great mission - build a better internet - using languages like Go. The CEO is visionary - definitely has an understanding of what the market wants. The company blog is followed and often picked up by the press. The company is also growing fast.

Cons

Very toxic culture - very much a cult of personality. Most of the first engineers hired have left the company. Either you are loved by the CEO or hated - there is no other way to get promotions or more money. No one on the 'executive' team has any management experience.

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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
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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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