Toxicity seems to be rewarded here - Software Engineer Cloudflare Employee Review

2.0
Feb 8, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Lots of impressively smart, educated and experienced people - Lots of innovation and future-thinking - Remote work is genuine and allows for work-life balance Note: I left voluntarily and on good terms.

Cons

- Virtually no career paths - Zero employee review process with feedback from management - Lacks: tuition reimbursement, 401k matching, wellness funds - Promotes people to management who cause chaos and are generally abusive - Finger-pointing and deflecting blame is common practice - Nerd bullies are beloved and rewarded - CEO is rather emotional and moody - Total chaos overall Tech culture (especially in engineering) is already tough enough but this place seems to be reversing course with all of the improvements people have been striving to achieve over the years.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
Jun 12, 2026
Recommend
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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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