Palo Alto Networks reviews

3.8

73% would recommend to a friend

(2,700 total reviews)
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Nikesh Arora

87% approve of CEO

78% positive business outlook

Palo Alto Networks has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 2,700 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Palo Alto Networks employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.7 stars).

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3K reviews
1.0
Sep 15, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

Pays well, stock does well for no apparent reason, has large captive customer base. There's a few great people here. Unfortunately none of them are leading the ship.

Cons

Mistreats engineering and devops employees and perpetuates a culture of fear and favoritism. Reporting any of this to HR goes right back to the engineering leadership and immediately results in retaliation. HR is not there to help the employees, but rather protects the executive bad behavior and silences the voices of the people trying to do the right thing. Leadership basically hired all the people Google doesn't want. They are trying desperately to be G. Nikesh swept in a huge bunch of underqualified folks who suppress the qualified people and use their hard work to impress him. For a company trying to be "cloud", they refused to accept distributed workforce until Covid left them no choice. They migrated acquisitions from gmail/gsuite to on-prem antiquated systems and then had to do an about face -- costing months of productivity. This stuff is rampant and goes much further than this. Marginalizing women's ability to lead and speak up as experts is one of the big ones. Just a while hornet's nest of issues waiting potential employees who don't see it coming until it's too late. They often ask employees to work extra -- their weekends, after hours, 80-100hrs a week. If you try to take vacation to make up for the overwork, they penalize and ostracize you.

2.0
Feb 11, 2017

Accounting Department

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Working with the supply chain / operations department was a delightful experience.

Cons

Accounting Department untrustworthy. Lack of trust at all levels within the department (peer to peer, manager to employee, employee to manager). Each and every individual in a survival and self preservation mode instead of working towards the company goals. People are afraid to speak up out of fear of backlash from the leader, Directive and authoritative culture instead of collaborative culture (culture that encourages individuals to work against each other instead of working as a team). Employees are treated as assets with expiration dates instead of individuals and humans. HR department ineffective at influencing and detracting leaders from making unethical and immoral decisions regarding employees. Eight weeks after I was hired to do a particular job, a pre planned reorg was announced. This reorg considerably diluted my responsibilities and relegated my day to day work to that of a first line manager. After the re org, I was reporting to a manager who had significantly fewer years of experience, lack of management skills to manage and provide mentorship to someone at my level and no prior technical and operational experience required to do this specific and niche job. I was told that this re org was decided before I interviewed for this position but not disclosed to me. This led me to resign within four months of joining the company. This huge dis service was done to me in bad taste.

1.0
Nov 4, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

PANW is still an excellent network security company with a phenomenal brand

Cons

Prisma Cloud Sales has had a reign of leaders who were hired into roles they did not belong in, ultimately running the business into the ground. It is impossible for any leader or non manager to be successful at Prisma Cloud as current leaders are given impossible tasks or are toxic. Attrition remains high. Enablement is non existent, leaving even “veterans” unaware of how to sell the product. The product itself is a shell of what it used to be and non functioning most of the time, leading to generally angry customers and massive customer separation to various other products in the market. Palo Alto Networks does not understand cloud, or how to properly sell or support software solutions at the enterprise level.

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