Cloudflare bets on early-career talent: 750 interns in year one of its 1,111-intern plan
SumitGup · x · 2026-10-06
While most companies cut intern and new-grad hiring, Cloudflare set a goal of hiring 1,111 interns in 2026 — a nod to its 1.1.1.1 DNS resolver — betting that AI tools make early-career talent more impactful faster.
A year in:
- 750 internships completed across 48 teams and 9 offices, still hiring
- Interns join real teams from day one and must ship something: product improvements, processes, infrastructure or insights
- Work already serves millions of customers — the second maintainer of the blog's EmDash system started as a summer intern
- Beyond engineering: an audit intern built an AI-assisted pipeline automating ISO compliance testing
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