Cloudflare Systems Engineer interview experience

After that, I had two back-to-back one-hour interviews with a short break between. The first was a technical slot that involved coding in Go or Python, but it wasn’t framed like a generic whiteboard exercise. The second hour was system design with a broad prompt meant to probe how deep my knowledge was.

All the engineers and recruiters I met were friendly and supportive, which made the rounds feel less intimidating than the formatting might suggest. I stayed in the process for about six weeks from the referral stage through to the offer decision. Depending on the team, I also saw that the