A ruined culture - Senior Product Manager Palo Alto Networks Employee Review

1.0
Jan 10, 2020
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Pros

I work in product management and leadership in this group is solid. We have Great products and challenging work. Pay is good and RSUs are nice but diminishing the past couple of years.

Cons

A series of horrible exec hirings the past few years topped off with the new CEO and all the execs he has brought in have ruined the culture. They ruined the sales team by pushing Mark A. out Amit has been a train wreck. The product marketing team was ruined by Janet M. who was thankfully ousted last year. 6 years ago when I joined this company had a special culture and we had a great working cadence. Our PM team has unfortunately lost a lot of great managers and talent with all the chaos. Now nobody works well together and backstabbing and finger pointing are the norm.

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