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Check Point Software Technologies

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Check Point Software Technologies reviews about "pay"

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253 reviews
3.0
Feb 14, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Check Point is known for being very stable, so the chance of mass layoffs is basically zero. Also the atmosphere is nice, not overly stressful.

Cons

The pay is significantly lower than competitors, and rises slowly. Not many chances of advancing from manual QA for the first 2-3 years if you come in with no experience.

4.0
Apr 15, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Very good work environment WFH potential Good opportunity for growth and advancement Good work life balance

Cons

Below average pay for the role

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3.0
Jan 29, 2023

Mutual respect between management and employees required

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Some colleagues were a blast to work with Opportunity to gain experience in cyber security vendor that has a broad product portfolio

Cons

Certain people in the senior management can be verbally abusive and talk down to you, and you are expected to just take it - utterly unacceptable Leadership is traditional and tend to be stuck in their ways, good and talented people will continue to leave Pay is not up to market rate

1.0
Jan 27, 2023
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Pros

Check Point has made some good acquisitions, but in very saturated markets. Nice office and a good location off of 101.

Cons

Customers are heavily migrating away to competitors. You'll be under enormous pressure to retain or bring them back but the technology and technical staff is lacking. It feels like you're fighting a losing or maybe already lost battle. Do your own market research before joining. This will greatly effect your commission and don't forget the high channel margins, so at the end of it, you'll most likely take a large OTE pay cut (think 50%). Supporting roles are not motivated and aligned with sales (pre-sales support, post-sales support, management, etc.), so you'll suffer with customer interactions, especially with new prospect customers. Don't forget the competitors also have 5x the staff for these accounts, so you will be greatly outnumbered. You'll have many, many hours of training every week that isn't "officially" mandatory, but it absolutely is. You will receive mandatory messages from higher-up and will be put on 1:1 meetings to understand why you missed a training if you did not attend. Most trainings are managed like my 5 year old in school, they will make you turn on your video, ask questions, and quiz everyone at the end. Yes, they treat you like it's your first sales job or you're in kindergarten, maybe both. They will also check the attendance report after trainings. Between corporate, product, team, systems, channel, and operations trainings, team meetings, CRM updates, and forecast meetings, don't expect to have a lot of time for actual customer engagements throughout the day. You'll spend more time inviting customers to events, that will most likely annoy and drive them away from actual sales activity. Random meetings will be created and sent the same day from your manager. These meetings are mandatory, and typically around 4pm just before a holiday or Friday just to "check-in" and basically make sure the team is online and working. At the end of it, they will say they just simply wanted to "wish you a great weekend or holiday".

4.0
Feb 6, 2023

awesome culture

Recommend
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Pros

Great company to work for. Good pay and work life balance.

Cons

Not having growth within the company

2.0
Feb 26, 2023

Blatant difference in treatment. Terrible management.

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Excellent pay and benefits. Fully remote. Some nice people within the company. Global company.

Cons

Terrible communication from HR and other important departments. Took them 3 weeks to send me a box to return my laptop. Then a month after I sent it back, they sent me an email claiming they never received my laptop and asked if I needed a box to ship it in (they literally didn't know if they had sent me a box or had even communicated with me). Let me preface this by saying when I was hired on, they knew I only spoke English. Further, there was a very clear divide in treatment for non Israeli employees that are within Israeli departments. Management refused to provide important work documents in English over half the time. Management uninvited American employees from important meetings so they could hold the meeting in Hebrew. They would "sum" the meeting afterwards which was roughly one sentence for every hour the meeting was. Management was constantly late to meetings (20+ minutes) but then would cancel a meeting if you were 3+ minutes late. Management would send pertinent emails in Hebrew and not translate into English. The entire department was behind in metrics that we were graded on but I was the only one who was scolded for being behind. Coworkers would ignore you if you messaged them in English asking for training/help/assistance with a task. When I tried to discuss what I believed was a difference in treatment, I was ignored and told it was my fault. Eventually I formally requested to have training documents and meetings translated into English so I can have the same information as my peers. I was terminated within two days after requesting that. The difference in treatment is draining and miserable. It'll never be worth the money because you'll be treated like a second hand citizen and never respected. Don't be fooled by the pay as you'll have to bend over backwards for the company and still get treated like dirt. Run away.

3.0
May 7, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Job safety, great colleagues, comfortable office

Cons

"fun days" that make you want to quit It's more important what it looks like to upper management that actual content of work Trying to pay less bonuses, using excuses

2.0
Feb 1, 2023

Management

Recommend
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Pros

Going for training in Israel.

Cons

Pay not equal to market. Mgmt constantly changing direction

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