Do not work for this company - Senior Project Manager Fortinet Employee Review

1.0
Jul 14, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The only thing I can think of is the company location.

Cons

I worked for the company from 2017-2021 as a senior project manager. I am going to talk about the supervisor of the Top-3 project management team, for her lack of leadership, her unprofessional behaviour at the workplace and her unfair treatment towards team members. The supervisor expects the project managers to come up with technical solutions and drive the solutions through the development groups to achieve sometimes unrealistic timelines. Failing of doing so, the project manager is labelled with lack of technical competency or lack of critical analytical capability. Many times, despite team members’ escalation, throughout the process, aside from stating the demand of the original unrealistic timeline and scope and blaming project managers for not coming up with a technical solution, she added no value. The supervisor has a hard time letting her people run their projects without micro-managing. Planning and executing a project with a measured cadence are often viewed as a lack of sense of urgency. The group doesn’t have a clearly defined project governance model and project management process to follow. This has resulted in team members constantly in a firefighting mode without clear direction and support. In my 20+ years of professional career working in complex high-tech environments, I have never experienced an incompetent leader like her.  This sentiment is echoed by other key Project Managers leaving the group due to her low level of leadership. The attrition rate of the team is constantly higher than 20% in the past 7 years. Aside from her poor leadership capability, what really bothered me was her unprofessional behaviour at the workplace towards the team members. Public shaming of her subordinators without ground really shocked me. It’s disappointing to see a senior leader treating her employees in this discriminatory manner. In the end, HR, unsurprisingly, sided with the management team. My advice, do not work for this company.

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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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