Cloudflare

Good Product, Toxic Culture

Engineering

Current Employee

Has worked at Cloudflare for 2 years

May 28, 2018

San Francisco, California

Good Product, Toxic Culture

Engineering•Current Employee•Worked at Cloudflare for 2 years

May 28, 2018

San Francisco, California

1.0

Doesn't RecommendNeutral OutlookDoesn't Approve of CEO

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An offer was extended and rescinded without explanation (search Glassdoor for this review).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".

Advice to Management

Start building a more respectful culture.

Implement annual performance reviews and anonymous 360-degree feedback across the organization.

Promote those who are high performers and team players.

Remove those who create a toxic culture, no matter how good they are at their job.

For the CEO: Be humble.

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Cloudflare Interview Questions

Design Circular Queue

Implement a circular queue data structure with a fixed size. You'll need to handle enqueueing, dequeueing, and checking if the queue is full or empty efficiently.

ArraysTwo PointersSliding Windows

3Sum

Find all unique triplets in an array that sum to zero. You'll need to consider the potential for duplicate numbers and avoid duplicate triplets in your solution.

ArraysTwo Pointers

4Sum

Find all unique quadruplets in an array that sum to a target value. You'll need to efficiently search for combinations of four numbers that satisfy the given condition.

ArraysTwo Pointers

Cloudflare Interview Experiences

Engineering

San Francisco, California, United States

I was already very familiar with Cloudflare as a customer in my previous role and a big supporter of the organization's stance on privacy and freedom of speech. I interacted with current employees at conferences and on discussion forums when I wasn'

Engineering

San Francisco, California, United States

I was already very familiar with Cloudflare as a customer in my previous role and a big supporter of the organization's stance on privacy and freedom of speech. I interacted with current employees at conferences and on discussion forums when I wasn'

Engineering

Singapore, Singapore

Applied online. Received an email within a couple of days stating they were interested in my profile. * Video Interview with the Hiring Manager. * Video Technical Interview with a Team Member (shared screen). * On-site Invitation: Technical I

Engineering

Singapore, Singapore

Applied online. Received an email within a couple of days stating they were interested in my profile. * Video Interview with the Hiring Manager. * Video Technical Interview with a Team Member (shared screen). * On-site Invitation: Technical I

Engineering

Extremely long process, the longest ever experienced. Very poor follow-up. For a not well-known company, they should do a better job treating their candidates. I would much rather have an insanely long interview at Google; at least it's Google.

Engineering

Extremely long process, the longest ever experienced. Very poor follow-up. For a not well-known company, they should do a better job treating their candidates. I would much rather have an insanely long interview at Google; at least it's Google.

Engineering

San Francisco, California, United States

I was already very familiar with Cloudflare as a customer in my previous role and a big supporter of the organization's stance on privacy and freedom of speech. I interacted with current employees at conferences and on discussion forums when I wasn'

Engineering
San Francisco, California, United States
May 1, 2014
I was already very familiar with Cloudflare as a customer in my previous role and a big supporter of the organization's stance on privacy and freedom of speech. I interacted with current employees at conferences and on discussion forums when I wasn'

Engineering

Singapore, Singapore

Applied online. Received an email within a couple of days stating they were interested in my profile. * Video Interview with the Hiring Manager. * Video Technical Interview with a Team Member (shared screen). * On-site Invitation: Technical I

Engineering
Singapore, Singapore
May 1, 2018
Applied online. Received an email within a couple of days stating they were interested in my profile. * Video Interview with the Hiring Manager. * Video Technical Interview with a Team Member (shared screen). * On-site Invitation: Technical I

Engineering

Extremely long process, the longest ever experienced. Very poor follow-up. For a not well-known company, they should do a better job treating their candidates. I would much rather have an insanely long interview at Google; at least it's Google.

Engineering
United States
March 8, 2014
Extremely long process, the longest ever experienced. Very poor follow-up. For a not well-known company, they should do a better job treating their candidates. I would much rather have an insanely long interview at Google; at least it's Google.

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