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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1.0
Apr 22, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Thank God for the people working on the ground. Most people are great to work with but the company is struggling to keep them.

Cons

Leadership is giving the phrase "change is a constant" a whole new meaning. It's not strategic change but unproductive wholesale change to big and little things constantly like basic product branding or your management chain. Most of your work is going to require time and family sacrifices to finish up because of urgent executive asks which then get reversed in a few months anyway and yes that's right you need to make more time and family sacrifices to urgently undo what you just did. How do you get recognized for good work when most of your hard work is thrown under the bus by the new leader who has the opposite idea for what should be done than their predecessor? Rinse repeat. Another huge con.. the company is set up for maximum infighting and power plays. Leaders here have no patience for hearing anything but "yes this is the best idea i've ever heard" and pass the same mentality down to their workers. Sucks for you if you work in a cross-functional team with competing demands.. you'll be treated like an obstacle to one team or another and get used to being steamrolled. I've never in my life witnessed adults crying at work until I got here. Employees are hostages in this ugly cycle but management want to believe root cause of employee unhappiness is we can't find lateral roles in the company. Unreal.

1.0
Sep 29, 2020

Politics and Chaos

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Still a growth company with decent compensation.

Cons

- New Eng. Exec. and management team are not hiring the best talent, but they are hiring folks from their former company, Cisco for all level of job opennings. They are trying to build the Cisco Enterprise BU within Palo Alto Networks. - We've experienced 4+ major re-orgs in the last four months within the same group. Change for the sake of change.

2.0
Feb 1, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good pay Good benefits Lots of on campus perks Fertility benefit added for 2019

Cons

Complete lack of project management An idea company, with no follow through, no tactical vision Work life balance is subjective based on your team Either people work hard, or they hardly work Micromanagement Clueless and non-engaged managers like to take credit for others' work. Extremely rude and degrading leaders in some areas, and this behavior is just accepted as the norm. I've actually seen 2 managers who do this get promoted.

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