Check Point Software Technologies reviews about "manager"

Management have very low human skill. Direct managers are like puppeteers, they have no power to change management low approach. This company makes more than $1,000,000 net per day and it is considered the cheapest company in the computer industry in Israel

No respect for your personal life. Too pushy management, forcing you to go overboard (that's beyond beyond). Managers have a aggressive attitude and will not cover your back when you need. Sales rules the place, you will be subject to any "less truthful" said by sales personnel and you are expected to back them up. Israel team does not trust US workers.

You will get more than your share of responsibility

- Extreme workload - Highly stressful work environment - Poorly managed support structure within the senior (Diamond/escalation) teams, with engineers functioning primarily in a reactive mode, trying to put out fires - Unrealistic expectations of senior engineers, while promising customers the moon - High employee turnover, leading to senior teams being inundated with less experienced engineers - Account managers and sales personnel interfere excessively with the support process - Highly unsatisfactory compensation, given the type of work being performed - Poorly administered internal resources, with frequent connectivity issues, overly complicated procedures for simple tasks, and a low quality lab environment - No gym/exercise program, making it very easy to gain weight due to the many high-fat lunch options - Frequent product and patch releases, suggesting a weak QA process, creating additional workload for support teams - Senior teams are still part of a phone queue - No clear career path once one reaches Diamond/escalation, with management reluctant to let employees leave for another department...essentially Diamond/escalation is a dead end It's clear that the TAC is a call center environment, and it is operated as such.

Some people were difficult to work with Endpoint team was being outsourced to Canada office The endpoint piece is strong from the encryption side, but the anti-malware is not as good as it could be. Also, upon purchasing Liquid Machines, it was no longer offered as a product for sale.

Know? None. employees who expect others to do their job have been let go or so the writiing on the wall and left on there own.

On-boarding consists of 40 hours of pre-recorded webinars -- hardly sufficient for the breadth of job requirements. Very little sales support and encouragement from sales management. I stumbled for months because there was no real-world coaching; no substantial introduction to resources and internal systems; no quote development training; no CRM training - how to input data the Check Point way; an Account Base that changed dramatically after (3) months; rotating Sales Engineers. Customers had better relationships with Channel Partners than with Check Point. direct because of the rotating cast of Account Managers. Senior executives have no real understanding of the competitive landscape. Low Pay.

The prospect of working with mission critical support of major enterprises can be daunting. However when the amount of support from fellow employees and management is figured in, it is hard to call this a con.