Fortinet reviews

3.8

68% would recommend to a friend

(2,888 total reviews)
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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
1.0
Jan 18, 2016

Run Away from Fortinet - RUN!!

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The hardware is consistently ranked higher than most/all competitors in the SMB arena.

Cons

1. Zero leadership from management. They will tell you they have a plan, but they won't share it. Some good ideas will be squashed by the CEO. 2. Terrible hires that make you question your own abilities, values, and existence on this planet. Management has consistently hired personal friends at director-level positions, giving them enormous salaries to boot. These hires are coming from larger companies and they are not natural leaders. 3. Employees that would rather watch the company lose extremely talented individuals, or even ask the CEO to fire them, just to see their own stock in the company rise. If you're exceedingly greedy, shallow, and self-conscious, you will be perfect for Fortinet. For example: if someone is more skilled than you, then feel free run to the CEO to complain about the person and maybe he'll fire them for you. If not, work your way down the list of C-level execs until someone will do it. People have been let go for no reason other than "management is making me do it". 4. A boy's club where Sales and Marketing gleefully spend the CEO's money on liquor and more. Moreover, budgets are not divided evenly. In consistently mind-boggling fashion, the cheapest departments are cut or laid off to save money. 5. Management has no respect for women, and never will. You will be marginalized, which is normal if you're Chinese, but this is America! 6. HR is full of manipulative liars and will look the other way even when employees are getting physically attacked by others. You read that correctly. You will receive passive aggressive e-mails on a weekly basis from bipolar employees that need to seek treatment. 7. So. Much. More. This is not a company for decent people. If you're a compulsive liar and backstabber, this is the company for you!

1.0
Sep 6, 2017

Technical engineer position to be avoided

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

30 days of vacation, stocks, technology as itself.

Cons

There are so many of them, mostly caused by the wrong management decisions and attitude. No possibility to grow and express yourself. Becoming more and more stressful. Quantity is over the quality, they will only ask you for numbers. For delivering them, you will only get a good word and one "thank you". At the beginning, it was OK, you could learn and improve yourself. After that, no way; no time to study new technologies, no time for longer testing and reproducing issues. Rules are changing, load of work is increasing but compensation for it is not coming. Around half of the L2 engineers left this year, L1 is becoming the same. If you are just working and listening to them, you might have a chance to be promoted. Otherwise, forget about it and start looking for a new job.

1.0
Mar 19, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Salary payments are mostly punctual. - RSUs. - They provide you four walls and a roof so you don't get wet or cold while working.

Cons

- No paid sick leave. - No meal vouchers. - No trainings provided, even when it is provided mostly not from trainers who are able to teach you something, not possible to grow and gain expertise in a specific field, too broad topics. - Payment is only average for the workload and stress that you have to handle. - Low level management has no prior management experience, thus incompetent in their jobs, as well as at their attitude towards their subordinates. - Every employee is under pressure, and stressed, not even possible to have a regular conversation with your colleagues. - No team work, no SME to help you, you are on your own most of the time. - No motivation, no benefits. - Instead of learning networking or network security you have to deal with firmware glitches more than anything. - Sales are growing but support team is not growing at same pace, people are leaving, new ones are coming, thus team growing rate remains unchanged and leaves you with ever increasing load. - It is definitely not an American corporate company, do not come here with such expectations. - Very strict working hours up to second. - Human resources is located in France, which is totally unaware of anything unless you need to be hired or fired.

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