Cloudflare·Software Engineer

Cloudflare Software Engineer interview experience

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My process had a clear sequence: first a hiring-manager round where I talked through my background and heard an introduction to the team, which primarily used Go.

About two weeks later I had an HR interview focused on explaining the process and collecting details about my interview and teamwork experiences.

Roughly a week after that, I got a technical interview where I had to implement a key-value store with value encryption using a password. I hadn’t used Go before, but I still implemented it in C++, building out a login flow and the pieces needed for hashing and encryption/decryption. I couldn’t manually implement SHA256 and AES from scratch, so I relied on Google AI to generate those functions, and the interviewer approved that approach. The

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