The job market is already brutal for many candidates, especially people who aren’t social media personalities and don’t have names like Cloudflare, Meta, Amazon, or Google on their CVs. Some people will end up homeless...
At least having Cloudflare on their resume will likely help many of these people land new opportunities, so I wouldn’t be too worried about their long-term prospects...
What I don’t fully understand is why a company like Cloudflare decides to let experienced people go under the umbrella of “reorganisation.” Couldn’t some of them be given the opportunity to adapt to new priorities or ways of working?
What exactly is so fundamentally difficult in 2026 that someone with years of experience can’t learn?
Of course, large organisations sometimes develop dysfunctional habits. I’m not saying that’s necessarily the case here, but common examples include:
1. Problems that a motivated engineer could solve in minutes instead turn into meetings scheduled a week later, followed by more meetings.
2. People are becoming so process-oriented or conservative that they reject new approaches by default (Not even trying things out, and I don't mean migrating to a new fancy framework)
3. Engineers losing touch with product thinking and customer impact.
And if the explanation is cost-cutting, it’s fair to ask where companies choose to spend money elsewhere, e.g. unlimited LLM token usage with little accountability, extravagant off-sites, flying thousands of employees to expensive locations, etc.
Finally, why do they keep hundreds of job openings on their careers page? Are those false job descriptions wasting candidates' time?
