Fortinet reviews

3.8

68% would recommend to a friend

(2,887 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 2,887 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
May 14, 2019

Sr Principal Software Engineer

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Stock performance (which largely due to stock buybacks) Avoid this company will save you tremendous amount of time and precious energy for advancing your career elsewhere.

Cons

Very bad hiring process, super inefficient HR. Resentful people in the HR and higher management. Always working against hiring managers because these people are treated poorly by their own management. Engineer quality is very poor, you will know this during interviews and as customers. There is only one product that sells, which is the xxxGate and if you are not in that team, your product doesn't matter. People in the company report each other for resentful reasons, nobody cares about the bigger picture. Abusing the internal investigation process for getting rid of rivals and disagreement. You will not have a healthy career in this company, also if you stayed too long, you end up getting affected by always fighting the crapy engineering practice and the unpleasant no-culture carelessness. You will meet some genuinely unhappy people that can't get a job elsewhere in the bay area. This echos back the point why the engineering quality and HR efficiency is so low. You won't meet people you can learn from in this company. They were either already left or got caught in one of those resentful internal event that got them kicked out for wanting things to get better.

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Fortinet Response
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While, we rarely respond to comments posted min GD, it seemed imperative to set the record straight. Fortinet has been a public company since 2009. During this time, the stock growth success, due to great people, products and services, has grown over 1300%. Outdistancing our closest key competitors near 3 to 1 in growth. This type of continued success is not the result of stock buy backs. Buy back math could never sustain such longterm, expansive growth and wealth to employees. Thanks to our great people for their talent and drive to win. I won't dignify the other comments as they are out of left field and seem to be from a very angry, misguided individual.
2.0
May 2, 2024

Overrated Company

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Have a solid firewall solution, Popular solution. Obviously people need cybersecurity these days. If you have a solid 2-3 year plan, you can make some great money.

Cons

Upper management is honestly horrible. They come down with half-baked directives constantly, They'll get some new big idea we need to be jazzed about, then move onto a new company, and wonder why we aren't hitting our numbers when our strategy is so short-sighted. Also, goals are extremely unnattainable in general, so I wouldn't plan on hitting 100% if you work in sales. It's probable you'll hit 30-50% of your goals the first 2-3 years so don't plan on making your entire salary. They have a very 'turn and burn,' expendable attitude toward their sales teams, don't like to promote internally. Many things get said that don't end up actually getting implemented, and the people that are actually hard workers are left holding the bag and receiving, in my opinion, an unfair level of compensation.

3.0
Aug 30, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good insurance, work from home 2 days a week Mon and Friday

Cons

Really poor onboarding/training. The so called managers were all friends of the channel director and looking at their LinkedIn experience non had any managerial experience, nor technical expertise. The pay is a 50/50 structure base pay then commission based on the sales team you support and thats if they reach their sales goals so you won't make nearly what they make you think you you'll get. It is not consistent at all. There is no tuition reimbursement to help further your knowledge in the tech world. They say the others will help train, hahaha, that's if they can find the time. Training is a little batter these days but if your right out of college you'd think a company rhis big would have a robust training department. They don't. Which is amazing considering the industry they are in.

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