Fortinet reviews

3.8

68% would recommend to a friend

(2,899 total reviews)
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Ken Xie

72% approve of CEO

69% positive business outlook

Fortinet has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 2,899 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
1.0
May 19, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Some great and talented people that work here. Too bad they don’t stick around once they realize what they signed up for.

Cons

This place is toxic. It enables and allows for leadership to lead by fear and people are quick to throw each other under the bus. The people who thrive here are bullies. There is no company culture. It is a cheap place that doesn’t provide ESPP, raises only account for inflation and all this while being overworked. Additional resources are hard to get and all job offers need to be approved by CEO. You may have an excellent candidate but that can quickly be derailed if the CEO feels the salary is too much or if he’s in a bad mood.

1.0
May 14, 2019

Sr Principal Software Engineer

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Stock performance (which largely due to stock buybacks) Avoid this company will save you tremendous amount of time and precious energy for advancing your career elsewhere.

Cons

Very bad hiring process, super inefficient HR. Resentful people in the HR and higher management. Always working against hiring managers because these people are treated poorly by their own management. Engineer quality is very poor, you will know this during interviews and as customers. There is only one product that sells, which is the xxxGate and if you are not in that team, your product doesn't matter. People in the company report each other for resentful reasons, nobody cares about the bigger picture. Abusing the internal investigation process for getting rid of rivals and disagreement. You will not have a healthy career in this company, also if you stayed too long, you end up getting affected by always fighting the crapy engineering practice and the unpleasant no-culture carelessness. You will meet some genuinely unhappy people that can't get a job elsewhere in the bay area. This echos back the point why the engineering quality and HR efficiency is so low. You won't meet people you can learn from in this company. They were either already left or got caught in one of those resentful internal event that got them kicked out for wanting things to get better.

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Fortinet Response
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While, we rarely respond to comments posted min GD, it seemed imperative to set the record straight. Fortinet has been a public company since 2009. During this time, the stock growth success, due to great people, products and services, has grown over 1300%. Outdistancing our closest key competitors near 3 to 1 in growth. This type of continued success is not the result of stock buy backs. Buy back math could never sustain such longterm, expansive growth and wealth to employees. Thanks to our great people for their talent and drive to win. I won't dignify the other comments as they are out of left field and seem to be from a very angry, misguided individual.
2.0
May 2, 2024

Overrated Company

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Have a solid firewall solution, Popular solution. Obviously people need cybersecurity these days. If you have a solid 2-3 year plan, you can make some great money.

Cons

Upper management is honestly horrible. They come down with half-baked directives constantly, They'll get some new big idea we need to be jazzed about, then move onto a new company, and wonder why we aren't hitting our numbers when our strategy is so short-sighted. Also, goals are extremely unnattainable in general, so I wouldn't plan on hitting 100% if you work in sales. It's probable you'll hit 30-50% of your goals the first 2-3 years so don't plan on making your entire salary. They have a very 'turn and burn,' expendable attitude toward their sales teams, don't like to promote internally. Many things get said that don't end up actually getting implemented, and the people that are actually hard workers are left holding the bag and receiving, in my opinion, an unfair level of compensation.

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