Cloudflare Software Engineer interview experience

They sent me information that the coding part would be a HackerRank-style exercise, but when I joined the interview, I was asked to share my screen and compile code instead. During the interview, I was allowed to google and search, but not to look at any code samples—an odd setup that made the task feel less realistic.

The process itself also had a lack of basic prep on the interviewer’s side. At one point, the interviewer was distracted enough to be walking and speaking while we talked, and they didn’t even look at my CV before the conversation. That combination made the whole thing feel