A "Me Too" company with little innovation beyond their silicon - Sales Engineer Fortinet Employee Review

1.0
Nov 11, 2015
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Great salary, great benefits, generous RSU package. They are an excellent SMB (mid-market) product. They have low pricing so they win a lot of deals based on price.

Cons

Fortinet hires from a lot of tier 3 and 4 companies. Their product shows it. They excel at mid-market (branch office) deployments. They are not Enterprise ready and even further (3-5 years) from data center adoption. Unfortunately, "They" think they are there now. This means their sales goals and numbers are very unrealistic. They are a "family company" with many friends and family of the CEO at or near the top. They are extremely frugal. When they do spend money, they make poor decisions (see Meru acquisition). They want to be a security company, but their product portfolio would suggest they want to make everything under the sun at a cheaper price point. Essentially, they look more like a one stop shop for the mom and pop than they do a serious security player. As I stated earlier, they are cheap. You get what you pay for. This product belongs on the end-cap at bestbuy next to Netgear.

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5.0
Jun 15, 2026
Recommend
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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
Recommend
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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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