job that requires hard work and every day learning + pay is really good - Technical Support Engineer Fortinet Employee Review

5.0
Jul 11, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

You must learn every day to be successful as TAC engineer. If you are the person that likes to figure out why things aren't working as should, and like to break things a lot, this is the place to be. You do a lot of testing, get familiar with many different customer setups, and you have automated lab with the bunch of equipment to play with. It is a nice mix of people from different technical backgrounds and different profiles, many of them quite senior, longer than 3 years in the company. Career growth, if you are really good and hardworking you are generally considered within two to three years depending on which position you are hired. There have been individuals that got promoted within 12 months time, but those were extraordinarily well-skilled engineers. Management is doing quarterly reviews and sets targets on the quarterly basis. Weekly reports are done so you really have to do your work as underperformers are quickly identified not only by the managment but the whole team. On contrary, top performers are rewarded on the quarterly basis with a generous bonus. Salary comes in the last week of each month. You get company shares as signing bonus + every year depending on the performance you can get more of these. It really starts paying off after 2 years, buying a car or going for an exotic vacation is how most of the colleagues spend their shares. Vacation of 30 days paid and you also get to schedule your vacation. No on-call duties. Working on the weekend is required, but it is really well compensated and you get the extra day off, so there is a big queue of volunteers for this. Rarely you are requested to work overtime and if so it is on the voluntary basis. Very flexible in terms of appointments (doctor, bank, post office, etc), you don't need to use vacation days for those.

Cons

There are periods during each year when everyone is under the heavy workload. Most of the people had difficulties getting up to speed during first 6 months, but this is getting better, more training available and every new hire gets a senior mentor to work with. You only do support job and rarely there are possibilities to work on project or implementations. It happens from time to time that you work with a customer that has no clue about products and simply ignoring your instructions and gets furious quickly demanding to talk to the manager.

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5.0
Jun 15, 2026
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Pros

- On target OTE and uncapped commissions - Great overall work culture - A lot of cool Field marketing events - Ability to expense dinners, entertainment, gifts for clients - Great company vision and a broad security fabric portfolio with several third party validations for a well-known cybersecurity brand makes it easy to sell and be successful.

Cons

- New business quotas are the same for every seller at least on my team, who all have very different territories, some with more white space heavy accounts that can be much more challenging to hit quota compared to other territories. Quotas went up by 20% from previous year. - Too many internal systems to navigate - processes and sales enablement tools could be more efficient - You can be the top performer in your US sales segment, and still not make it to President's Club because of the way it's structured - competing against different segments and only top 3-4% get to go each year. Rewarding top performers in general is an area needing improvement in my opinion.

2.0
Jun 9, 2026
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Pros

Solid, stable, predictable. Most people are out of the office by 4 or 5 pm. Life is easy and expectations are low.

Cons

Little support for marketing. Fortinet has too many products and too many product lines - and every product owner is fighting for attention of sales. The company is firmly wedded to it's hardware roots. Fortinet has not invested in internal systems. Reporting is awkard and cumbersome, and adaption on enterprise AI is still a long ways off. There are no women in senior roles.

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