Fortinet reviews

Promises of great wealth with IPO soon to happen, that was in 2005, and just now in 2009 they filed for IPO. They tried and take anything they have to pay for and reverse engineer it and build it themselves. No understanding of how to the day to day operations are to run at a company. When asked Ken one time about a calendaring system he said an employee could walk over to his cube and look on his white board, and others should do the same. yeah that works well.

Fortinet is family run engineering company where sales are tolerated but are not as important as engineering/product/marketing/HQ functions. Employees outside of HQ are not particularly valued or invested in - they prefer to spend a lot ($Bn) on share buybacks and physical buildings that remain empty. Marketing is not aligned to the market or to sales. Messaging does not resonate outside of SMB. No one pushes back on or questions opportunity-limiting decisions made by the CEO. Brand is negatively impacted as a result. Senior leaders are long tenured and have grown from Fortinet itself being a SMB - none have ever run a global enterprise and it shows. Culture is limited to country-level, limited leadership and HR is an operational department without influence.