Company seems to have peaked under prior management - Finance Business Manager Palo Alto Networks Employee Review

1.0
Jan 28, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Company provides large equity incentives and the stock has performed extremely well. The company is also staffed with a lot of talent.

Cons

Company culture is frenetic and demanding. There are pockets where people seem to have work/life balance and the rest do not. The company feels like a giant start-up that never built sustainable processes or infrastructure, and the amount of churn has left few people in place who know how things were duct-taped together. This has only been exacerbated by new product lines and GTM motions.

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Pros

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Cons

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Pros

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

Cons

Largest cyber security company in the world with an ever-expanding portfolio. They buy companies quicker than they can integrate them and is the antithesis of a caring employer. Nikesh could layoff 80% of employees tomorrow and the stock would still skyrocket. I decided to pursue a new opportunity after CyberArk was acquired and prior to giving my official two week notice I let my team know, and started training them in our brand new cutting edge solutions so that they could take over my workload without any roadblocks or hiccups. As soon as I put in my two week notice the company locks me out and cuts off all of my benefits and does not pay me for the notice that I have given, putting my family in a very precarious place during the interim of my work. This is by far one of the most classless things I’ve seen a company do, please watch out for yourself at Palo because no one in management will. I am extremely passionate about the space that I operate in and often found myself working 12 hour days- the ability to have work life balance at a place like Palo Alto is zero.

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