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Toxic culture - Systems Engineer Cloudflare Employee Review

1.0

24 May 2026

Systems engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business outlook

Pros

Mostly decent work life balance, outside of crunch periods and on call shifts. Probably worsening due to recent engineering layoffs though. Interesting technical problems (depends on team).

Cons

Upper management perpetuate a toxic culture - CEO likes to make personal attacks on employees in public channels. CTO is reactionary and does not communicate well. Flashy demos are valued over robust engineering. Constructive criticism is taken poorly.

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5.0

1 May 2026

Technical program manager

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

Systems engineer

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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