Horrible executive leadership, needs to grow up - Anonymous employee Cloudflare Employee Review

1.0
Jan 10, 2024
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

None anymore, good people either have left or been let go. If you got lucky and sold your stock during it's the peak in 2021, congratulations. Check out the public insider activity and remember these are the same people who decided to gut the health insurance and cut headcount.

Cons

Moody CEO yells, drinks, and cries in meetings, publicly embarrasses his own Sales org, and perpetuates a culture where the entire executive and management team points blame at others (including each other) for company shortfalls. Mass PIP's are being used to reduce headcount while CEO constantly bragged about not doing layoffs during the pandemic. The air is thick with anxiety, wondering who will disappear next.

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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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