Cloudflare·Software Engineer

Cloudflare Software Engineer interview experience

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Austin, TXPosted Apr 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I started with a 30-minute conversation with the hiring manager.

The vibe was friendly and the questions leaned heavily on my background and resume. After that, I had a 1-hour TPS-style interview with an engineering manager where I worked through a HackerRank-like problem that wasn’t typical LeetCode. I remember that practicing LeetCode did help, mostly to get comfortable picking the right data structures.

A recruiter call followed to talk about salary, location, and what came next. Then I went into a loop that felt very structured: a short culture-fit behavioral discussion, a PM-focused behavioral round about collaboration, a debugging round, a system

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