Culture: engineering management & HR - Senior Engineer Palo Alto Networks Employee Review

1.0
Mar 20, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

Good technologies but only if you get opportunity to learn and grow

Cons

- HR works for managers, not for employees. It's a manager driven company where employees input is hardly heard. - HR and management would keep manager to meet just numbers even when managers have bad behaviors - bad culture from senior management, hirerachy tries to cover up bad culture and get rid employees who tries to maintain good culture and try to speak up for right thing - non technical managers so hard convince technical problem or solutions - In R&D they hire non-technical managers to manage engineers so you can imagine, also doesn't let engineers interview the manager and get hired without yes from team - favorism involved in performance ratings - get ready to work on nights and weekends

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Cons

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