Sr Principal Software Engineer - Anonymous employee Fortinet Employee Review

1.0
May 14, 2019
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.

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