Cloudflare

The leadership stage includes the "Orange Cloud Interview", a dedicated round that assesses the behaviours Cloudflare says it values – curiosity, clear and transparent communication, and doing the right thing. The behaviours round is a distinct, named stage rather than a formality folded into the technical rounds, so preparing here means rehearsing concrete examples against the firm's published capabilities, not only solving the role's technical questions – values-alignment prep that does not transfer cleanly to firms that fold culture-fit into a single general interview.

In 2025 the firm set a public goal of hiring 1,111 interns in 2026, recruiting throughout the year across hubs in Austin, San Francisco and New York (USA), Bengaluru (India), Lisbon (Portugal) and London (UK), on work ranging from network-infrastructure security to serverless development. It also offers US university students with a valid .edu address one year of free access to its Workers platform. Because intern hiring runs throughout the year rather than in a single autumn window, there is no one deadline to plan around: roles surface across multiple cities and functions on a rolling basis, so the practical task is watching the openings continuously and applying to each hub and team as it posts, not timing one application.