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      Fortinet

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      Fortinet reviews

      3.8

      68% would recommend to a friend

      (2,903 total reviews)
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      Ken Xie

      72% approve of CEO

      69% positive business outlook

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      Fortinet has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 2,903 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Fortinet employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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      3K reviews
      2.0
      Oct 12, 2017

      Poor Leadership

      Account manager
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      CEO approval
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      Pros

      Great technology, lots of good people who work at Fortinet, Nice offices, pay and benefits are great, you should be able to make great money here as an AM or CAM. Lots of really smart people at Fortinet, in all departments up to and including the founders obviously. They're leaders in the industry.

      Cons

      Leadership at the VP level and up is poor.... You'll be amazed at how much and how little requires CEO/CTO/CFO approval. This leaves middle management paralyzed and indecisive, nothing can get done and everyone is afraid to make a decision. Poor communication at every level and in every department... This results in a lot of fear and uncertainty and I don't think they mind. Directors and VP's will vanish with no acknowledgement or explanation to anyone. Employees are left to search LinkedIn to see what happen to them... Not a lot of adherence to HR best practices so people lose their job and have no idea it's coming. It's not that the managers in the sales regions are bad leaders, they're just powerless and afraid.

      2.0
      Feb 2, 2017

      Great product, No loyalty to their employees

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Fortinet has a lot of good things going for it. It's products are some of the best in class, and the engineering team has done a phenomenal job creating products that position Fortinet in a great spot on the Gartner Magic Quadrant. The company offers employees a good work/life balance, great benefits and unlimited PTO.

      Cons

      Alot of unpredictable change. Fortinet does not understand what it means to be loyal to their hard working employees. If the direction of the wind changes, they may decide to lay off for fire individuals. There is no sense of stability. It is a technology company that wants the sales success, but often times doesn't allow enough time in a sales cycle to have that success come to fruition before firing individuals. Marketing also gets a bad rap. And it should. The marketing team is an outstanding group of very talented and hard working people, but their resources are often limited or tapped out. Fortinet does not appear to look at marketing as an essential function in company success. They just assume the product will sell its self.

      1.0
      Oct 1, 2015

      Revolving Door

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Good income, hot space. Good products, but poor testing before release.

      Cons

      The management team is focused only on product, and the rest of the company is inefficient operationally. Good old boy network with questionable ethics.

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