Fortinet reviews

3.8

68% would recommend to a friend

(2,888 total reviews)
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Ken Xie

73% approve of CEO

69% positive business outlook

Fortinet has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 2,888 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Fortinet employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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3K reviews
2.0
Jan 20, 2022

Trying to do everything

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Pros

-Decent salary, good RSU -If you are a self starter, you will do well

Cons

-Mandarin first company. Horrible culture. -Company is trying to do everything at once. Teams are stretched thin. -Management is poor. Direction is decided on the spot. -Nothing is planned in advance. -No innovation, just copy competitors. Scramble to recover when we are already late to the game.

1.0
Nov 30, 2021

WORST.COMPANY.EVER

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Pros

Free coffee every month; Office is next to subway; Internal certifications are free; Multilingual community, both customers and colleagues; Stocks.

Cons

1. Quantity > Quality If you've noticed people complaining about the quality of support, then it's justified. Teams are interested in closing tickets but not in the technical aspect, and the only thing they're interested in is quota. 2. Unfair quotas: If you expect to get a few calls from an average guy named John who speaks English fluently and politely asks where he can find the logs and the case can be closed, then you've never been that far from the truth. EMEA customer: Speaks English horribly; Doesn't understand the "we do not provide root cause analysis" line; Bombards support with a ton of questions in attempt to get recommendations that are actually provided by another department; Buys worthless contracts with limited support and manipulates with ratings; Even Expert partners can't perform basic operations. L2 has to write articles EVERY month, while L3 has 1 ticket weekly? And then poor L1 gets a quota to close 3-4 tickets per day, while L2 has 2 tickets only? Don't be so ridiculous. 3. Monthly bonuses They are distributed in such a way that it is profitable to abuse the system and close easy tickets by ignoring heavy ones. That brings us to a conclusion that the "best" engineer is the one who by tricking, manipulation or trivial manual tuning gets grades and closing tickets, but not the one who has deep knowledge, but simply can't maneuver through a huge amount of inadequate work. 4. Office Located on the edge of town; Has no barriers between employees; Noisy; Does not have its own gym; Has no breakout room; Did I mention that office visit is mandatory? 5. Organization The paperwork can take up to a year, and for some reason it is handled by outsourced firm; The firm has no HR department, they recently hired only one employee, I wonder how long is he going to last there; They have been promising to solve the problems and provide benefits to employees for 5 years already, even fascism was defeated faster; Wage levels are not rising at all, although they are at low level compared to the workload. 6. Inside Development team is taking forever to respond even for TOP3 issues; Development team is ONLY from wechat country; Management mostly is here too provide you with useless notes; Top management makes everything worse without any chance to improve.

1.0
May 19, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

Profitable and doing well that it hides all the political flaws

Cons

No ESPP (what public company has no ESPP?), only Sales gets all the love, no rewards for G&A, processes and systems are antiquated (like 1990s), communications are the worst I've seen in any company, COVID communications are close to null which is worrying my team, all decisions are made and controlled by one person - founder led/CEO; the Executive leadership team are not empowered; I know lots of talented people that have left Marketing after being there for less than 2 years; the HR team is a revolving door because they aren't supported; they don't know how to lead but they are very good at being followers of PAN; pay feels really low; hard to get things done because of difficult processes - company is very people dependent; they are very old school and not progressive; the scores on glassdoor is making the political truth.

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