What is the hiring process like at Cloudflare?

Great product in the core areas.

- EMEA GTM and leadership needs to go instead of kipping on failing and firing people on the ground , never actually contributed but only damaged business in my time there . - GTM in general is lacking the appropriate investment in everything . - Pay is not matching industry standard anymore . - Workload and work life balance is not great and not supported with any valid benefits . - Never met someone from HR and seems the only ones who did was the ones who we're let go . - No career development and the hiring team will lie to get you in , - Consistency not hiring the right people to the job and you get to work with a low bar people and skillset while the competition is investing 30x in talent .

Great technology that customers buy

Terrible sales leadership. Way too much turnover in the sales org. Sales cycles are long but churn in org is crazy. Very unprofessional sale management begging for orders from partners and customers when not needed. Cash to quote process is a disaster makes it hard to respond to customers. Commission payout is 90 days out instead of 30 days like most. No 401k(wow). Only 10% of reps and managers are making their number. Strategic (Named) org is in chaos. Especially with new managers that are clueless with 0 security background. Way too much busy work for such small size deals (avg deal under $100k). HR hiring process is the worst in the industry by far and totally unprofessional with hiring process. Some people had 10+ interviews. Don’t recommend this place

Great products, solid reputation in the market, smart, collaborative team members and has the potential to do so much more and be so much better if…..

….The founders and CTO had the self awareness to recognize that they are not, and do not have the executive skills and experience to carry the company forward. They did a great job founding the company, creating the product and setting the vision into motion, but the constant micromanagement, sense of entitlement, and arrogance to not listen and let “real enterprise executives” do what they know needs to be done in order to scale and mature the company, will only continue to burn good people out and drive them away. The grossly below market comp, laughable merit increases and RSU grants, and the embarrassment Cloudflare calls “benefits” will ensure people stay away or withdraw from the interview process. The job market will turn around and when it does there will be a reckoning. Trying to convince people that you are going to change the world, control the internet and are the company everyone wants to work at, is just not reality. That is EVERY companies pitch. People don’t care anymore about your delusions. They want to be paid fairly, to be treated with respect and they want to see leadership do what’s best for the company and its people, even if that means stepping aside. You want to GSD….start there

Being associated with the name Cloudflare is the only perk

Baseless hiring, not at all culture driven/people centric, they will blame you the moment you will raise concerns about any situation and eventually will show you the door without any hesitation. Don't go for the name!

- The product and people are amazing! Such potential here... - A COO that is truly the glue here - great human. -

- The CEO's ego and lack of respect for his sales organziation will impede this companies growth and ensure they are built out as a well oiled machine. - They hire and fire without any true effort into their sales people (outside of low priced sales training that does not even apply to the process it takes to sale here). Literally burn money on a hire with irrational ramp periods and set unattainable bars to rip and replace with the exact same type of rep (has to be expensive this way). - A seriously scary feeling of not knowing what they are doing with the sales org, and panic fixing it without any accountability to the failing pricing structure and overall structure.

Never seen layoffs for technical employees. Exciting technologies Remote friendly Good office buildings Extreme levels of transparency Talented people

Overly-complicated and long interview process and onboarding leads to hiring difficulties Salary is based on where you live in USA so you are punished for living in cheaper states Middle management bloat

Many opportunities to solve interesting technical challenges with high impact and very high number of nice, skilled and knowledgeable coworkers.

Worrying trend over the last few months: Return to office policy. Hiring restrictions that make it impossible to hire (even rare talent) in more expensive areas. Combined with a push towards hiring in countries with lower wages, even offering relocation for existing employees.

You can see the reason of so many interview stages after you join. They make sure the new hires fit the culture personally. It's an amazing environment to work at.

Nothing i can say so far.

People are sincere, smart, fun, and lovely.

CEO (Matthew) micro-manages product, which creates a lot of internal chaos. Companies can be nimble AND sane. On the 3-point scale of Abdication-Delegation-Micromanagement, Matthew is far over on the side of Micromanagement... which impacts every team, and at this point in Cloudflare's growth just is not necessary to remain competitive. Cloudflare also does not support professional development for management—so if you're a manager matriculating up to a Director role, you get no guidance beyond legal Teflon, for hiring managers. The CEO insists they pay people enough to fund their own growth support—but that's not an industry standard, and from a billionaire with poor management skills, himself, it's kind of chin-rubby.

Decent compensation ranges for positions Good Health Insurance Good stock options

The company gets reorganized on a regular basis. Lots of conflicting guidance from senior leadership. There are a lot of stupid policies that managers are constantly trying to get exemptions from for ICs. Depending on the role, oncall can be rough. Hiring pipeline is rough, most teams are severely understaffed as a result.