Strangest Place I've Ever Worked - Anonymous employee Fortinet Employee Review

1.0
Jul 6, 2015
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Reasonable products Many smart & dedicated employees

Cons

Fortinet has more than 3000 employees & yet is run like a small family business. Ken Xie is a smart guy but is extraordinarily paranoid after a poor experience w/ Netscreen. He has access to all company email, & for example, prohibits a central directory. Good luck finding anyone. The churn in the past 18 months has been extremely high at the C level, with people leaving or being forced out for what appear to be whimsical reasons.

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Cons

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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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