Failing Backwards Looking Family Run Engineering & Property Company - Sales Leader Fortinet Employee Review

1.0
May 26, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Many talented people in the regional sales organisations - typically those with shorter tenure.

Cons

Fortinet is family run engineering company where sales are tolerated but are not as important as engineering/product/marketing/HQ functions. Employees outside of HQ are not particularly valued or invested in - they prefer to spend a lot ($Bn) on share buybacks and physical buildings that remain empty. Marketing is not aligned to the market or to sales. Messaging does not resonate outside of SMB. No one pushes back on or questions opportunity-limiting decisions made by the CEO. Brand is negatively impacted as a result. Senior leaders are long tenured and have grown from Fortinet itself being a SMB - none have ever run a global enterprise and it shows. Culture is limited to country-level, limited leadership and HR is an operational department without influence.

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5.0
Jun 16, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Great work life balance. Interesting projects

Cons

Internal tools are lacking compared to other places

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.

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