Cloudflare Systems Engineer interview experience

My recruiter relied heavily on copy-pasted templated answers whenever I asked clarifying questions about what to expect in each round. That misinformation even showed up when he told me there wouldn’t be coding challenges at the onsite—yet for me there were two.

The onsite itself ended up feeling pretty basic, centered on straightforward data structure manipulation and algorithms. It was only after I started that I realized how that experience didn’t match what I later saw on the job: the team I joined had its own internal issues, and I left about two years later.

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