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Cloudflare Employee records her final meeting where HR tries to fire her (ody.sh)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I can’t give more approval for this woman, she handled everything so well.

The backstory is that Cloudflare overhired and wanted to reduce headcount, rightsize, whatever terrible HR wording you choose. Instead of admitting that this was a layoff, which would grant her things like severance and unemployment - they tried to tell her that her performance was lacking.

And for most of us (myself included) we would angrily accept it and trash the company online. Not her, she goes directly against them. It of course doesn’t go anywhere because HR is a bunch of robots with no emotions that just parrot what papa company tells them to, but she still says what all of us wish we did.

(Warning, if you've ever been laid off this is a bit enraging and can bring up some feelings)

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I have an interview scheduled with CloudFlare for later this week. Guess what topic is going to come up.

Looks like I’ll miss this bullet. I’m still pretty happy in my current role so I’ll only jump for something spectacular.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Between us, I think it's still okay to vet them out, but yeah you have the benefit of knowing they need to sell the job to you. Are there layoffs happening, "I read articles where layoffs are still happening, why are you hiring?" and knowing that HR is going to be impersonal and callous when you're dealing with them. All important factors.

And hey worst case, it's good interview prep for yourself

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah, still attending the interview but don’t really think I’m going to go anywhere with it. As you said, it’s good game practice.

But really though. If CF is this brazen on ~~letting go~~ ~~recalibrating~~ firing the people closest to the money (sales) then how am I supposed to think they’re going to treat their engineering talent? R&D is typically the first to get the blunt end of the axe, not the last.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I've seen it hit both ways tbh, sometimes it's engineering, sometimes it's support. Depends on if the company views engineering as "they'll save us money" or not.

But yeah, it's a good chance to work out the first interview jitters, probably do some stupid technical questions on the whiteboard like "write out binary search perfectly in the whiteboard from memory", and see how it goes.