Toxic work environment - Incompetent management with a lot of politics - Software Engineer Cloudflare Employee Review

1.0
Dec 4, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Good tech stack - Opportunity to learn

Cons

- Lot of politics in the management and retention of employees in the company is not based on the work/skill - Think twice before joining if you belong to a minority as harassment is common and diversity efforts are nothing more than an eyewash - If you are not into the habit of social drinking, you might feel hostile [the name of the weekly meeting in the company was called `beer meeting'] - CEO / COO and a handful of people in engineering management are total sadist/narcissistic predators. Employees who are vocal about this are usually moved to different office locations in the name of re-org and many good / skilled employees left the company - Also, I intuitively felt some religious means of control in the company but I don't want to talk further about it

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5.0
Jun 9, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

New Tech, Diversity and many learning opportunities

Cons

Its hard to learn all these new stuff

2.0
Jun 12, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

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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