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
3.0
Aug 30, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Good insurance, work from home 2 days a week Mon and Friday

Cons

Really poor onboarding/training. The so called managers were all friends of the channel director and looking at their LinkedIn experience non had any managerial experience, nor technical expertise. The pay is a 50/50 structure base pay then commission based on the sales team you support and thats if they reach their sales goals so you won't make nearly what they make you think you you'll get. It is not consistent at all. There is no tuition reimbursement to help further your knowledge in the tech world. They say the others will help train, hahaha, that's if they can find the time. Training is a little batter these days but if your right out of college you'd think a company rhis big would have a robust training department. They don't. Which is amazing considering the industry they are in.

2.0
Aug 31, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Start up mentality, very flat organization, strong customer base

Cons

Reckless layoffs conducted without any seeming methodology or care for the employee. Constant reorgs cause a chaotic culture and don’t foster a community of collaboration. Poor benefits such as no ESPP have always been outweighed by a strong stock price which lost 30% in value after a poor quarter. Employee morale, especially within sales and marketing is at an all time low

2.0
Feb 10, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The company is constantly growing Market leader Good health benefits Flexible PTO subject to mgmt approval

Cons

- Overload of daily tickets with a never ending amount of products and technologies supported. Lack of documentation for troubleshooting. - Evaluation criteria is crazy: You have to get multiple certifications per year, language assessment in English and Portuguese, attend Portuguese classes, Design technical documentation, Technical Videos, this on top of regular ticket assignment and CSAT - Management always change rules of evaluation for ticket handling. - Yearly performance review will not exceed more than 5 %. If you get a promotion mid year you will not receive a salary increase the following year, which defeats the whole purpose of getting the promotion in the first place. - Promotions will not exceed salary increase of more than 15 %, even if the pay range of the new position is above that. - Salary for South Florida as TAC engineer is not competitive at all. The Miami area is high cost and other companies will pay a lot more even if they are smaller. Management will encourage engineers to not negotiate salary. Best way will be to leave the company and come back to negotiate better salary. - There is no seniority, new engineers can start with same or higher salary than you with no experience. - Post Sales is treated as a third class employees. We do not get enough participation on events or well deserved recognition. - Trainings are scarce specially on new products or features. - Decisions are made in Mexico and never take into account Sunrise TAC, even though we are in the same team. Miami TAC will cover for other teams while they have events or changes in their countries schedule while nobody will take into consideration input from Sunrise TAC - Pre Sales and other TAC teams in LATAM get holidays but not Miami TAC. - Career opportunities are very limited because the lack of engineers, therefore they will not let you apply to other positions in other areas.

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