Hopefully someone has a good experience - Software Engineer Cloudflare Employee Review

2.0
27 Oct 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Good salary, reasonable benefits. - There are some good people and teams here. Like most tech companies, it depends where you get hired into.

Cons

- Company runs on duct tape and hope, and blog post puffery. - Terrible onboarding process (failed completely, apparently that is expected). - Mentors not trained in anyway: mine had one response to any question "you'll figure it out". - Manager rarely attended 1:1's, zero guidance except what not to do. - Consistently cheap, happier to burn engineering time rather than pay for anything new. Comically bad at this. - Company lobbies employees very hard to vote for Cloudflare in the top-100 companies; doesn't actually care to solicit feedback on how it really is. - There are hopefully better teams, but mine was the least bonded I've ever encountered.

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5.0
1 May 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Very good culture and strong talent

Cons

Expectation to manage up and extremely fast paced environment

4.0
8 May 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Very interesting and engaging work. Lots of smart people work there so you will learn a lot. It's place to learn industry best practices. Stock usually performs well so compensation is pretty good if you live in cheaper areas like Austin.

Cons

Stressful at times. On-call can be rough. Product demands can be rough. Lots of pressure to ship new things even if mounds of tech debt exist and make shipping riskier, all just to meet customer contract commitment deadlines. Detailed testing and vetting of new features could improve too. I think the comp is less sustainable for more expensive places like New York and SF

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