Does Fortinet pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, Fortinet employees rate their compensation and benefits as 3.6 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at Fortinet. This rating has decreased by 3% over the last 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at Fortinet?

68% of Fortinet employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated Fortinet 3.9 out of 5 for work life balance, 3.7 for culture and values and 3.6 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at Fortinet?

Systems Engineer (201) , Technical Support Engineer (161) , Software Engineer (99) , TAC Engineer (98) , Major Account Manager (87) , Account Manager (55) , Software Developer (53) , Business Development Representative (BDR) (50) , Senior Software Engineer (43) , Sales (40) , Inside Sales Representative (39) , Regional Account Manager (36) , Software QA Engineer (34) , Channel Account Manager (28) , Manager (25)

What are the pros of working at Fortinet according to real employee reviews?

"Good work/life balance but Fortinet does offer dinner if I need to stay late to work overtime" ((in 179 reviews)); "Great people to work with" ((in 133 reviews)); "Very flexible and provide good benefits" ((in 131 reviews)); "Great culture where you can be yourself and are accepted within the community with respect and kindness." ((in 130 reviews)); "4) Good salary and Stocks" ((in 129 reviews))

What are the cons of working at Fortinet according to real employee reviews?

"Poor management and they don't take care of the employees" ((in 124 reviews)); "Leadership at the VP level and up is poor.... You'll be amazed at how much and how little requires CEO/CTO/CFO approval." ((in 31 reviews)); "No training and cannot remote" ((in 28 reviews)); "Compensation; no diversity; slow grow" ((in 15 reviews)); "There is no growth opportunity for SEs." ((in 13 reviews))

What are employees saying about Fortinet layoffs in 2026?

Explore Glassdoor’s employee reviews to understand what current and former employees are saying about Fortinet layoffs and their outlook for job security at Fortinet in 2026.

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3.8

68% would recommend to a friend

(2,888 total reviews)

Ken Xie

73% approve of CEO

69% positive business outlook

Ratings by category

3.9

Work/Life balance

3.7

Culture & values

3.7

Diversity & inclusion

3.6

Compensation and benefits

3.6

Career opportunities

3.4

Senior management

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

3.0

Feb 11, 2016

Good place -- if you just want a work place

Anonymous employee

Recommend

CEO approval

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Pros

- Reasonable Salary, good benefits. - Work-Life balanced style. - No squeezing pressure and schedule. - VERY flexible and self-managed work hours ...(But also read in Con...).

Cons

- But, it's TOO flexible and self-managed work hours... thus difficult to find or gather people and teams during normal hours. - Lack of team works, and poor inter-teams communication and cooperation - Poor and fickle Management and Policy - Bad working cultures from China (Big-wok culture everywhere; Do more, wrong more... Do less, wrong less... So the best is do nothing then nothing wrong...)

1.0

Sep 14, 2015

It costs money to work here

Professional services engineer ii

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Managers are helpful and friendly.

Cons

If you are a professional service engineer it costs you money to work with fortinet. When you travel to service their clients, fortinet makes the employee pay up front the money for all travel costs, which is on the low end 1000.00 for a 5 day trip. They eventually remburse you, week later. But when you are traveling every 2 weeks( one week on, one week off) it gets very costly. I guess they assume their employees dont have families or other bills to pay. If you turn down travel due to money its an issue. Salary doesnt put a dent in the costs they expect you to come out of pocket for travel. I just get home and am working all week remotely, then have to leave to travel again.

1.0

Jun 27, 2015

Culture going down hill fast

Anonymous employee

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

There are a lot of great people that work hard. Stock is doing good

Cons

The culture is being reined by a top management. It is a sweat shop. Expect to work many hours. Employees are not respected.

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