Pros: - Interesting product - Unlimited PTO (whether you can take it is another matter) - Close to Caltrain and Muni rail

Cons: Cloudflare does not have mission values or company culture that promote harmony among all employees. There is a very siloed and clique culture within the company, and it seems that those who are early employees, hold higher-level positions, or gained favor from the CEO will have preferential treatment compared to others. The tone from the top seems to reflect this: * The CEO berating engineers in the company wiki for everyone to see. * A public tweet from management publicly making fun of a company that tried to do business with Cloudflare. * An offer was extended and rescinded without explanation (search Glassdoor for this review). If you search for past reviews, you will notice a common theme regarding what many people think of the CEO (Hint: Arrogant). People are leaving in droves and are quickly replaced by newcomers, and the cycle continues, including high-ranking employees. If you go to LinkedIn, you can see how many people have left Cloudflare and begin to see the pattern. The company may have a good product, but be aware of the "culture".

Pros: Cloudflare is a small company (100 engineers, another 150 in other roles) which has a big and growing impact on the Internet -- for the good. Rather than locking website operators into a single "stack" from Amazon, Microsoft, Google, or other hosting providers, Cloudflare lets websites choose how to host their site and then get top-quality network edge performance and security between their users and server infrastructure, for a price ranging from free (for millions of sites with less-demanding requirements) to about 10% of what incumbents charge for enterprise customers. The biggest reason to work at Cloudflare is to be a part of making the Internet a better place. In contrast to a lot of other companies, Cloudflare has an extremely permissive terms of service, valuing free speech over everything else. While there are a lot of sites on Cloudflare which people find objectionable (for varying reasons), on balance, having open access at the network layer makes the Internet a better place. There are some big engineering problems to solve -- handling a huge volume of web requests means every other support system is also huge -- so it's a great place to get to work on hard challenges, the latest technology, and with some really smart people. Cloudflare has both a high media profile and a large user base, so if you tell someone you work at Cloudflare, you're likely to get a positive response.

Cons: The biggest problem with Cloudflare is a legacy of its flat organizational structure. For a long time, Cloudflare clung to a "flat" organization. This was great back when the company had 25 or 50 employees, but it broke down at 100-150. Cloudflare now has a top-tier VP Engineering and some solid engineering managers, but is still implementing the kind of structure a company doing as much as Cloudflare does needs to have. For a long time, Cloudflare had a below-market office environment (a cramped, poorly maintained space), but after 18 months of delays, we finally moved into an amazing dedicated building a block away. People visit and compare it favorably to any company in tech. If you want to be in San Francisco, the location is hard to beat -- a block from Giants Stadium and 2 blocks from Caltrain. Cloudflare cash compensation is essentially at-market. Equity compensation is less than market, but the company is also on a solid financial footing and good growth trajectory (because people actually need, value, and pay for the product), so it's hard to directly compare to more "bubble-based" valuations at other companies. Benefits are decent (free snacks, but only one free meal/week). Good health insurance, no other perks.

Pros: Everyone is nice. You can learn a lot.

Cons: Lower efficiency in product development