What a Dumpster Fire! - Principal Consultant Palo Alto Networks Employee Review

1.0
Feb 16, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Decent pay, decent WLB (depends on your business unit and manager), Flexible PTO.

Cons

This company used to have great culture. Everyone used to pull on the same thread and were extremely collaborative with eachother about 3 years ago. Since 2025, the company has gone on a full downward spiral. Employees are pitted against eachother in intense competitions to reach escalators in bonuses based on product pull through. This has caused everyone on the team to look out for themselves. AI hasn’t helped either. Because of the team’s heavy reliance on the internal AI tooling, quality has suffered tenfold on consulting engagements and customers are starting to notice. The operations team is also as clueless as it gets and are not receptive to change. Most of the ops tsam is made up of legacy employees that have not been able to lead by example as the team has scaled the past 5 years.

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Cons

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Pros

Largest cyber security company in the world with an ever-expanding portfolio

Cons

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