Cloudflare

• Educational for junior specialists
• Interesting product
• Recognizable brand, that attracts smart people

• Management varies from under-powered to absurdly unqualified.
• Promotion is based on loyalty, not on skills.
• There is no career ladder.
• There is no professional development, and no budget for learning. There are no guarantees they will pay towards your travel expenses even if you speak at a professional conference.
• There are no professional bands; salary is not based on merit, hence the pay gap is often unbelievably huge.
• A very siloed culture amplifies already significant technical debt.
• There are lots of politics.
• Blog-driven development, which usually has nothing to do with your job. You will have to clean up the mess after the rock-stars move to new shiny projects.
• Not an equal chance employer: if you don’t kiss the right place, you are doomed to be treated as a second-class citizen.
• Communication is often problematic, even within teams. Cross-team collaboration is almost non-existent.
• Stolen ideas and claiming undue credit is not an accident; some employees intentionally sabotage their colleagues.
• The people team is useless.
• The CEO rules by intimidation; the COO is weak.
• They are cheap on everything: from tiny desks to business flights without baggage.
• Most of the talent does not stay longer than 2 years or waits for the IPO to quit shortly after.
• Leadership asks employees to write positive reviews on Glassdoor. On bad reviews, they comment to bring it up with your manager, but managers usually ignore any feedback from employees.
• Benefits are poor; equity is meaningless.
• Burnout is common.
• After realizing they are a company of white dudes, they started intentionally hiring minorities to improve the numbers, but they fail to attract anyone senior.
• Belittling employees that left the company.

Replace the unqualified management and fire the few not-so-brilliant jerks instead of enabling them.