Toxic culture - Systems Engineer Cloudflare Employee Review

1.0
24 May 2026
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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Cons

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2.0
12 Jun 2026
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Pros

- Strong platform - Mostly friendly and smart people - Good salary, but substandard benefits

Cons

- Strong culture of favoritism: if you’re not an OG or coming in from Palo Alto, you’ll face an uphill battle in sales. - Sales culture is terribly toxic, political, and cliquey, especially with the Palo Alto Networks invasion. - Ridiculous internal processes and poorly designed tools (still use more spreadsheets than tools, quotes can take weeks and I’m not kidding) - Zero sales tools (No Outreach, Gong, good luck even getting Zoom Info) - Substandard BDR team with 12:1 ratios of BDR to AE. Got zero set meetings in over 1 year with our team’s BDR.

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