Cloudflare
Large (~4,000)
Granola
Small (~50)
Best For
Cloudflare
Best for: Engineers who want mission-driven work building critical internet infrastructure
Granola
Best for: Craft-focused generalists who love native macOS development and want to build a consumer-quality AI product people genuinely love
Ratings
CloudflareGranola
3.9
4.8
Overall
3.7
4.5
Work-Life Balance
4.0
5.0
Culture & Values
3.8
4.5
Comp & Benefits
3.5
5.0
Senior Mgmt
3.8
4.7
Career Opps
👍 72% Recommend
👤 77% CEO Approval (Matthew Prince)
👍 100% Recommend
👤 100% CEO Approval (Sam Stephenson)
Culture Values
Cloudflare only
🌱 Learning & Growth🪟 Transparent
Granola only
💎 Strong Comp & Equity🧩 Wears Many Hats
Shared
⚙️ Engineering-Driven🚀 Ship Fast & Iterate🎯 Direct Product Impact
Pros & Cons
Cloudflare
- Mission-driven company building critical internet infrastructure — meaningful work with real impact
- Smart colleagues and a culture that values innovation, shipping quickly, and technical excellence
- Compensation can lag behind FAANG competitors, especially base salary
- Some teams experience high pressure and demanding workloads with uneven management quality
Granola
- Users absolutely love the product — everyone at Granola genuinely cares about quality
- Plenty of opportunities to work on things that make a real difference on a small team
- 5 days in office by default (with flexibility for life circumstances)
- Small team, so things can be busy — you'll wear many hats
Bottom Line
Cloudflare
Choose Cloudflare if you want mission-driven work building critical internet infrastructure with sharp engineers — but compensation lags FAANG and pressure can be high.
Granola
Choose Granola if you want to work on one of the most loved AI products with a small, London-based, in-office team obsessed with craft — but note the 5-days-in-office policy is explicit and non-negotiable.
Open Roles
Cloudflare — 469 jobs
💼 Sales / GTM
226
💻 Engineering
127
📋 Product
19
📣 Marketing
18
📊 Data
10
⚙️ Operations
7
👤 HR / People
6
⚖️ Legal
6
🧠 ML / AI
4
💰 Finance
1
Granola — 16 jobs
💼 Sales / GTM
6
💻 Engineering
4
📣 Marketing
2
🎨 Design
1
👤 HR / People
1
⚖️ Legal
1
⚙️ Operations
1
Summary
Cloudflare scores 3.9/5.0 on Glassdoor with a 3.7 work-life balance rating. Granola scores 4.8/5.0 overall with a 4.5 WLB. That’s a 0.9-point gap on overall satisfaction.
Both companies share these culture values: Engineering-Driven, Ship Fast & Iterate, Direct Product Impact. Cloudflare also emphasizes Learning & Growth, Transparent. Granola also emphasizes Strong Comp & Equity, Wears Many Hats.
On the hiring front, Cloudflare has 469 open roles and Granola has 16 open roles.