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    1. NewsCards on

      > The packages for departing employees will include the equivalent of their full base pay through the end of 2026. Healthcare coverage is different across the globe, and if you’re in the United States, we’ll continue to provide support through the end of the year. We are also vesting equity for departing team members through August 15th, so they receive stock beyond their departure date. And, if departing team members haven’t hit their one-year cliffs, we are going to waive those and vest their pro-rated equity through August as well.

      It’s not a bad severance package.

      Just kind of tired of these „building for the future“ blog posts from CEOs.

    2. davidcelis on

      I know it’s probably automatic because of the similar titles, but hitting the bottom of the layoff announcement only to be recommended their post from last year about hiring 1,111 interns in 2026 is a reaaal bad look

    4. Lonestar93 on

      Blatant AI-washing. No direct link explained between AI and reducing headcount, just “rearchitecting the company” vibes. I thought Cloudflare were one of the good ones here.

    8. CircuitCircus on

      Does this mean I’ll stop getting those stupid security checks on every fucking webpage?

    11. Albert3232 on

      Being employed in the tech industry must be so stressful. Imagine having a mortgage to pay and knowing you can be laid off at any moment.

    13. Jooodas on

      I wonder if the publics hatred of AI from constant layoffs will affect its future. AI slop increases cost for customers of components, AI leads to layoffs in tech and all companies seem to just be doubling down. All while quality is decreasing, more outages than in the past and mor stories of developers not knowing what they are doing ( Vercel ).

      I’m not sure how governments or companies think that increasing costs while decreasing employment will be a good combo.

    14. rhaikh on

      >We believe acting with empathy isn’t about avoiding hard decisions but rather about how you treat people when those decisions are made.

      Hard decisions shouldn’t belong to people who are immune to the consequences, having „empathy“ doesn’t absolve you from the guilt you are feeling for taking away 1,100 people’s agency and livelihoods

    15. Individual-Result777 on

      Sometimes i think tech co lay people off because what they needed built, is built. When a construction site finishes, some people loose jobs. This cloudflare layoff feels a bit like that.

    17. notyouagain2 on

      „**Cloudflare’s usage of AI has increased by more than 600% in the last three months alone**. Employees across the company from engineering to HR to finance to marketing run thousands of AI agent sessions each day to get their work done. That means we have to be intentional in how we architect our company for the agentic AI era in order to supercharge the value we deliver to our customers and to honor our mission to help build a better Internet for everyone, everywhere.

      **Today is a hard day. This decision unfortunately means saying goodbye to teammates who have contributed meaningfully to our mission and to building Cloudflare into one of the world’s most successful companies.**“

      What a bunch of horse shit to act like this wasn’t planned from the absolute beginning of their AI journey. Sorry to the employees who were lied to from management that the training they were doing wouldn’t affect their job (security).

    18. SpezSucksSamAltman on

      I’m genuinely surprised they didn’t throw 1,100 employees out the window.

    19. Fantastic-String-860 on

      This isn’t a message about building the future of Cloudfare. This isn’t even a message about firing people. This is a marketing message.

      „Our AI products allowed us to fire our people. Phone us to find out how we can help you fire your staff.“

      This is probably the most soulless ghoulish corporate greed shit I’ve seen. Parading around celebrating their firing of their staff and inviting other ghouls to join.

    21. multic94 on

      Even more unemployed people now. The „K shaped economy“ is going to implode very soon.

    26. comfortable_in_chaos on

      A sea change is happening in tech, caused by AI, and incumbent tech companies are terrified. Companies that are laying off are admitting that they don’t know how to innovate in this new world, they’re just trying to maximize short term profits so they can have a war chest throw money at adaptation and acquisitions as new powers arise. Startups are hiring like mad right now and are light years ahead. 

    28. GotSomeUpdogOnUrFace on

      Did they make everyone verify they are a human as they accepted the severance, cloudflare and get fucked. I shouldn’t have to verify every time I use a site. I literally changed pages and I have to click again. Fuck right off.

    30. JackSpyder on

      Big tech layoffs need to include total staff count and total hiring count for the year. So we can see net.

      Also by department.

      These companies constantly hire and constantly let go.

    32. hackingdreams on

      Nah, we’re totally not in a recession. They just keep laying people off for shits and giggles.

    33. mechacrew on

      4th major corporation this month to announce layoffs or a total closure. But tomorrow the presidents buddies at the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics will say we’re in a job growth period.

    35. Dependent_Age_6493 on

      I read somewhere that the severance packages are gonna cost them about 150 million!!!!!

    36. fillasopher on

      AI has become too sticky in many companies. People are using AI even to record meetings and explain them.
      Right now with or without increasing productivity AI cost has ramped up the cost due to tokenized system.
      Once it’s full scale, AI companies will jack up the price which will further hit companies margin.
      Companies are firing people to explain AI usage and increased opex (which doesn’t guarantee productivity and cost saving). Every company is on this AI hype train.

    37. SpicyAfrican on

      Cloudflare is on my “no interview” list. I’ve interviewed with them years before for a role and it was one of the most unprofessional interviews I’ve ever experienced. A recruiter reached out to me recently and I gave them my thoughts and told them to stop contacting me. They’ve also conducted layoffs before. I would not recommend them to anyone.

    38. jswissle on

      I got laid off no pip on a decision that was made days before randomly and given two weeks pay so I’d be pretty fking ecstatic to have this scenario personally 

    39. 69Theinfamousfinch69 on

      Remember folks, it’s not AI… they over-hired and don’t want their stock to drop…

    40. BigThoughtMan on

      I am surprised cloudflare even had 1100 employees, let alone 1100 employees to lay off. I get shocked every time when I hear these lay offs, mostly because how many people are laid off. The headcount for many of these firms are simply ridiculously large and doesn’t make sense for what service they offer. Twitter had like 7.5k employees, which is absurd for that one website. Wtf where 7.5k people doing for that shitty website? And now it seems to function just fine with 2.8 k employees, which still is an absurd number of employees for such a small website/service.

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