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Check Point Software Technologies

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Check Point Software Technologies reviews

3.5

64% would recommend to a friend

(2,756 total reviews)
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Nadav Zafrir

62% approve of CEO

54% positive business outlook

Check Point Software Technologies has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 2,756 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Check Point Software Technologies employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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3K reviews
1.0
Oct 16, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Literally the free lunches, but when its some kind of oriental 3 days in a row, for both options, it becomes tedious

Cons

Completely overworked for pay Distribution of workload is completely uneven (ALWAYS AIM TO WORK FOR VPN/SEC TEAM if in Ottawa, you will do 1/3 the work for the same salary as HE/MGMT for same pay) Management "fixes" problems brought to them for about a week, at which point things will return to "normal" Never aim to work mornings - you will be overloaded without fail (12:30pm shift also gets 10% premium - aim for this [most pay for "days" with smallest workload])

2.0
Mar 18, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Some really good, supportive middle management and tech staff in the company, going way beyond to support their customers. Good perks including private healthcare and good pension scheme. WFH even before the pandemic. Some great teams with a strong customer ethic doing great things.

Cons

Where do I start? As other reviews have stated, there are not enough developers to keep up with our competition. Management still has old fashioned ideas about what security is and commitment to cloud products is paying lip service. Company already overtaken by PAN and soon to be overtaken by Fortinet. One senior exec told a room of people at a Town Hall that he had missed his targets for six consecutive quarters, who gets away with this? Cloud R&D totally maxed out all of the time, no slack in the system to go back and fix bugs in products, they have to move on to the next "me too" feature. Spend some of the $4B you have in the bank that you boast about at every quarterly earnings call on keeping the company relevant. Comp plans are so complicated that even Stephen Hawking can't work them out. If they can stiff you on commission or bonuses, they will. External training done on a shoestring, so any cloud training will need to be done in your own time and on your own dime.

1.0
Jan 23, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- decent starting pay - diverse demographics - (there's no such thing as a) free lunch - team managers tend to be good people who have your back - opportunities to get certifications and training all paid by the company - a good stepping stone for your career as long as you start looking for a new job the second you get out of probation and got the certs you wanted

Cons

- constantly understaffed - extremely high turnover due to the stress of the job and low higher-tier pay, so most of the company is usually very inexperienced. so many people quit before their first year is over so they can go work somewhere less horrible - constantly overworked - I can count the number of days per month I didn't put in at least 1 extra hour on one hand, and often up to 3. at the end I was on salary so wasn't even getting compensated for the extra hours - cramped cube farm with extra-short walls - everything is numbers driven and if you're doing great work on fewer cases you'll get a worse review than people who slack off and manipulate their way into case closures and pass the buck. this is an enterprise TAC with highly trained professionals, but it's run with a minimum wage call center mentality - you'll get tired of the lies that come out of your mouth trying to excuse inexcusable things to customers real quick - everyone's so tightly wound all the time the office gets either loopy or explosive and perfectly good people start yelling at and grow to resent each other - HR? what HR? flagrant disregard for Canadian anti-discrimination laws because the Israeli execs don't care and no accommodations are given if your problem exists outside of their worldview. seen some great engineers kicked to the curb because they had personal difficulties that should had BASIC, simple solutions that most other modern companies have already adopted - plies employees with cheap amenities like free pop as such an obvious tactic to distract them from the fact that this job is awful that it's insulting - I've seen the TAC director VISIBLY STRAIN to try to give a crap about an employee as a person - if you're the kind of person who cares about the quality of your work you're gonna get PTSD if you work here too long and that is not an exaggeration, it's an actual diagnosis.

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