Even Cloudflare's CEO says that viral firing video is ‘painful.' Here's what went wrong.

A tech employee’s recording of the meeting firing her from a sales role at Cloudflare NET, -1.79% has spurred criticism of the company — and a broader conversation about the right way to let employees go. Viewers have called the roughly 10-minute TikTok video, which went viral this week, “sad” and a “disaster.” Even Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince responded on X (formerly Twitter) that it was “painful for me to watch.” In the video captioned, “POV: You’re about to get laid off,” former Cloudflare account exec ...