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Check Point Software Technologies

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Check Point Software Technologies reviews

3.6

67% would recommend to a friend

(2,741 total reviews)
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Nadav Zafrir

66% approve of CEO

56% positive business outlook

Check Point Software Technologies has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 2,741 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
2.0
May 4, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

They buy you lunch, and every five years or so give you a week's paid vacation somewhere nice.

Cons

Technically almost clueless. Flagrant violations of Brooks Law lead to frequent death marches. Management is also morally impaired. I had an accident and got 30K from the insurance, which was less than what the accident costs me, Check Point wanted to keep 27K to pay for the medical expenses its health coverage had to pay. I had to spend thousand in lawyers to negotiate the figure down to 9K, which they took, regardless. That is after I paid thousand in health insurance premiums. Yes, there is a federal law that allows them to do that. That happened after the CEO can't stop boasting that Check Point has 3 billions cash in the bank, when he speaks. Every time a customer hired an outside penetration tester to test the defenses Check Point provides it failed embarrassingly. The company has no technical standards so anything goes. Cryptic code, too many languages, no uniformity. Not good.

5.0
May 4, 2016

Security Analyst

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The people at checkpoint are a pleasure to work with, and are very professional. The atmosphere is good, and you can learn a lot.

Cons

The wages in some roles are not very competitive, and you need to make sure you get into a team that does interesting stuff, as not all teams do.

1.0
Apr 23, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Some of the people are great, free lunch, but it's low quality, opportunities to do a ton of work and build a portfolio.

Cons

1. Micro management from Israel. 2. They expect a lot from marketing, yet never approve anything we want to do, therefore handcuffing us (understatement) 3. Incompetent and inexperienced people are hired and kept in the organization, even when there are obvious problems with them (includes management). 4. Very high turnover, due to people becoming so frustrated with horrible processes. 5. High stress levels, toxic work environment.

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