Palo Alto Networks reviews

3.8

73% would recommend to a friend

(2,704 total reviews)
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Nikesh Arora

86% approve of CEO

78% positive business outlook

Palo Alto Networks has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 2,704 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
Jul 6, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Company's Financial Performance; EV charging stations

Cons

- Rude, micro managing team leads - All about playing the blame game - No work life balance - Growth is totally dependent upon how much you can suck up - Unprofessional/ stressful environment

2.0
Jan 31, 2023

Terrible WLB and work culture

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Decent to great compensation depends on tenure and performance. Much harder to achieve great compensation with current RSU and performance rating practices. Great employees who rally and make the most out of a pressure cooker environment.

Cons

PAN once was a great place to work but today is a battlefield. There are too many obstacles to duck in order to perform well for a sustained period...... constant leadership change and reorg, political battles between business units, aggressive senior leaders, and a frenzied pace that sends employees into endless unproductive firedrills. This is all exec leadership generated and perpetuated by an army of VPs. I feel sorry for previous reviewer saying he changed teams 3 times in 18 months as if it was remarkable. Those who have been here longer know this will happen to him again every 18 months. A lot of sweat and tears goes into operating successfully with this level of distraction. But cracks are starting to show. This just makes leadership squeeze employees harder instead of stopping their own harmful behaviors. See RTO mandate, insulting performance review policies, downgrade of every investment in employee experience, and you guessed it more change.

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Palo Alto Networks Response
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Thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts and feedback. We work very hard to ensure that Palo Alto Networks is the best place you will ever work, and are proud to have recently been featured on Glassdoor’s Best Places to Work and on Comparably as a top company for culture. These rankings are not something that we’re able to (or are interested in) influencing by any means – they are organically earned by the honest feedback provided by employees. So while we know we are doing many things right in order to be ranked so highly, we acknowledge that you are not having the experience that we strive to provide. We continue to lead with empathy and trust – schedules remain as flexible as they can around needs at home, and individual work. We have not mandated a widespread return to office. We do believe that managers and director level individual contributors and above can best build our culture and contribute to the professional development and wellbeing of those early in their careers by being accessible in our offices a few days per week. Our people who were hired into remote roles remain remote. We are very proud of all that FLEXWORK has to offer, including our benefits, learning opportunities, our internal mobility program, and more, and we hope that you will take advantage of these opportunities.
3.0
Sep 20, 2020

Great Company, Worried Going Forward

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Salary, Technology, Offices, Most People and head of products, (best ever)

Cons

New Google-Centric management have made it their personal political playground. You are welcome to feel included in anything as long as it fits into their personal ideology. Lost focus on quality of products in light of too much political focus.

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