I haven't had worse work experience for the last ten years - Technical Support Engineer I Fortinet Employee Review

1.0
Mar 19, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

- Salary payments are mostly punctual. - RSUs. - They provide you four walls and a roof so you don't get wet or cold while working.

Cons

- No paid sick leave. - No meal vouchers. - No trainings provided, even when it is provided mostly not from trainers who are able to teach you something, not possible to grow and gain expertise in a specific field, too broad topics. - Payment is only average for the workload and stress that you have to handle. - Low level management has no prior management experience, thus incompetent in their jobs, as well as at their attitude towards their subordinates. - Every employee is under pressure, and stressed, not even possible to have a regular conversation with your colleagues. - No team work, no SME to help you, you are on your own most of the time. - No motivation, no benefits. - Instead of learning networking or network security you have to deal with firmware glitches more than anything. - Sales are growing but support team is not growing at same pace, people are leaving, new ones are coming, thus team growing rate remains unchanged and leaves you with ever increasing load. - It is definitely not an American corporate company, do not come here with such expectations. - Very strict working hours up to second. - Human resources is located in France, which is totally unaware of anything unless you need to be hired or fired.

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Pros

Great work life balance. Interesting projects

Cons

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5.0
Jun 15, 2026
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Pros

- On target OTE and uncapped commissions - Great overall work culture - A lot of cool Field marketing events - Ability to expense dinners, entertainment, gifts for clients - Great company vision and a broad security fabric portfolio with several third party validations for a well-known cybersecurity brand makes it easy to sell and be successful.

Cons

- New business quotas are the same for every seller at least on my team, who all have very different territories, some with more white space heavy accounts that can be much more challenging to hit quota compared to other territories. Quotas went up by 20% from previous year. - Too many internal systems to navigate - processes and sales enablement tools could be more efficient - You can be the top performer in your US sales segment, and still not make it to President's Club because of the way it's structured - competing against different segments and only top 3-4% get to go each year. Rewarding top performers in general is an area needing improvement in my opinion.

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