Strong Product, Fear Based Sales Culture, Elitist CEO, Robotic CRO - Account Executive Cloudflare Employee Review

2.0
May 9, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Cloudflare's products are second to none. I'll stand behind that. They are the best cybersecurity company from a complete product standpoint.

Cons

Where to start. Operations is an absolute disaster. Sales Management doesn't know what they're doing and simply push a "sell or get out" attitude. It's sad too because I saw the culture change over time. When I started there was a "lead with empathy" attitude by everyone. Now, and especially since new CRO Marc Boroditsky came in, it's much more fear based and robotic. Marc began subtly reducing AE's compensations in sneaky ways and certainly got the ball rolling for Matthew's embarrassing Q1 '23 earnings call where he literally called all of his success from the last 10 years solely because of the strength of the product (Matthew doesn't care about sales people at all FYI). I'm happy to have worked there while I did but the shift in company culture is abhorrently trending in the wrong direction.

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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
Jun 12, 2026
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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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