re: CEO responds to 'painful' video of employee who went viral after being fired

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IT_Dawg

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I work in the space as well. I actually worked at this company and left a few months ago because I saw where this shite was heading. Been reading through the comments and it's refreshing to see someone else who actually understands the goings on. Things like:

1 At any SaaS company if you go more than a quarter without closing a deal you should feel wildly under the gun.

2 The executives don't give a shite about the salespeople and the salespeople don't give a shite about the executives or the company. Both sides take maximum advantage of each other for as long as it's mutually beneficial for both sides, and as soon as it's not the relationship ends.

3 At a company the size of Cloudflare and above you truly are just a number on a spreadsheet.

4 We were a remote workforce. She would have never once gone into the office and probably never met her manager in person. The way they were firing the manager might have already been fired as well which is why someone else was subbing in and why let go via Zoom.

5 Cloudflare needed to drastically reduce its sales team to reorganize. They did this by ranking everyone by attainment, knowing how many people they needed to cut, and then let everyone go under a certain % to meet that number. That's why "performance" was cited as even though she would have been given some leeway under regular circumstances (and more warning and coaching) since they were doing a mass cut she became a casualty.