Fortinet reviews

3.8

69% would recommend to a friend

(2,892 total reviews)
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73% approve of CEO

70% positive business outlook

Fortinet has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 2,892 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Fortinet employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Tecnologia da informação industry (3.9 stars).

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3K reviews
1.0
Jan 6, 2016

AVOID FORTINET

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Well, I guess working at Fortinet is better than being raped in prison but not by very much. Location is good since I live in Sunnyvale.

Cons

Engineering management is really incompetent and has no respect for people. No PTO. No bonus, Almost every project is a failure, so managers line up scapegoats early.

1.0
Jan 18, 2016

Run Away from Fortinet - RUN!!

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The hardware is consistently ranked higher than most/all competitors in the SMB arena.

Cons

1. Zero leadership from management. They will tell you they have a plan, but they won't share it. Some good ideas will be squashed by the CEO. 2. Terrible hires that make you question your own abilities, values, and existence on this planet. Management has consistently hired personal friends at director-level positions, giving them enormous salaries to boot. These hires are coming from larger companies and they are not natural leaders. 3. Employees that would rather watch the company lose extremely talented individuals, or even ask the CEO to fire them, just to see their own stock in the company rise. If you're exceedingly greedy, shallow, and self-conscious, you will be perfect for Fortinet. For example: if someone is more skilled than you, then feel free run to the CEO to complain about the person and maybe he'll fire them for you. If not, work your way down the list of C-level execs until someone will do it. People have been let go for no reason other than "management is making me do it". 4. A boy's club where Sales and Marketing gleefully spend the CEO's money on liquor and more. Moreover, budgets are not divided evenly. In consistently mind-boggling fashion, the cheapest departments are cut or laid off to save money. 5. Management has no respect for women, and never will. You will be marginalized, which is normal if you're Chinese, but this is America! 6. HR is full of manipulative liars and will look the other way even when employees are getting physically attacked by others. You read that correctly. You will receive passive aggressive e-mails on a weekly basis from bipolar employees that need to seek treatment. 7. So. Much. More. This is not a company for decent people. If you're a compulsive liar and backstabber, this is the company for you!

1.0
Sep 6, 2017

Technical engineer position to be avoided

Anonymous employee
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

30 days of vacation, stocks, technology as itself.

Cons

There are so many of them, mostly caused by the wrong management decisions and attitude. No possibility to grow and express yourself. Becoming more and more stressful. Quantity is over the quality, they will only ask you for numbers. For delivering them, you will only get a good word and one "thank you". At the beginning, it was OK, you could learn and improve yourself. After that, no way; no time to study new technologies, no time for longer testing and reproducing issues. Rules are changing, load of work is increasing but compensation for it is not coming. Around half of the L2 engineers left this year, L1 is becoming the same. If you are just working and listening to them, you might have a chance to be promoted. Otherwise, forget about it and start looking for a new job.

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