I had great hopes for Cloudflare. Unfortunately, this has been the worst interviewing experience in terms of organization, delivering on promises, and valuing your time that I've had by far.

My process started with a coding challenge that I spent a significant amount of time on. After which, I was invited to many more interviews, all but one of which were at night in my local time.

First off, the interviewing schedule I was sent was wrong in all sorts of ways. Some meetings had the wrong length, some had the wrong description and attendees, and some just had a completely wrong time. This caused me to miss interviews as well as have the wrong expectations going into some of them.

I had to call multiple times to try and correct this, but every single time I was sent a new schedule that was wrong in new and different ways. So, I ended up just asking my interviewers for what their schedule said.

On top of a messed-up schedule, even though I was told there would be comprehensive feedback at the end of the interviewing process, given that you have to spend a significant amount of personal time in it, after my last interview with the hiring manager (where I was again told that feedback would follow), I heard nothing for weeks. So, I sent an email asking about the status.

I was told to wait. This went on for a while. Every couple of weeks, I sent an email asking for a status, each time being told to wait longer. A couple of times, I was told I would hear back on a specific day, but those were empty promises, and I never did.

Eventually, months after my last interview, they managed to call me. The call lasted about 5 minutes. I was told that "sadly," someone else was chosen and that details as well as feedback about my interview process would follow. Of course, again, I never heard anything.

This company will ask for multiple workdays worth of your time, on top of you having to take initiative to fix your interview schedule, only to give empty promises over and over again and to treat you like an absolute commodity.

This is somewhat unsurprising for a company their size, but Cloudflare seems to try very hard to portray an image of being different, while their recent layoffs prove that this couldn't be further from the truth.

Basic questions about browsers, DNS, routing, etc.