TECH - Cloudflare CEO Says Viral Firing Video Is 'Painful': 'We Were Far From Perfect… We Don't Always Get It Right' | Benzinga
Cloudflare Inc. (NYSE:NET) CEO Matthew Prince has admitted that a viral video of an employee being fired is "painful for me to watch," but maintained that the decision to fire the said employee was not the mistake in this case.
What Happened: Responding to a post by Bloom Institute's co-founder Austen Allred, Prince went into a little more detail about what went wrong with the employee who recorded herself being laid off.
Viewers of the 9-minute video posted by former Cloudflare employee Brittany Pietsch have called it "horrendous" and that there is a "culture or senior leadership problem" at Cloudflare.
"The video is painful for me to watch. Managers should always be involved. HR should be involved, but it shouldn't be outsourced to them, no employee should ever actually be surprised ...