Fortinet reviews

3.9

69% would recommend to a friend

(2,910 total reviews)
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Ken Xie

73% approve of CEO

69% positive business outlook

Fortinet has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 2,910 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 Informatique industry (3.9 stars).

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3K reviews
2.0
Oct 1, 2009

Words only go so far

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Doing my job was up to me and I pretty much did my own thing. I had 3 managers in the year and half I was there.

Cons

Promises of great wealth with IPO soon to happen, that was in 2005, and just now in 2009 they filed for IPO. They tried and take anything they have to pay for and reverse engineer it and build it themselves. No understanding of how to the day to day operations are to run at a company. When asked Ken one time about a calendaring system he said an employee could walk over to his cube and look on his white board, and others should do the same. yeah that works well.

1.0
May 26, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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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.

2.0
May 20, 2024

Good and Bad

Recommend
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Pros

The people that work at Fortinet are good people and for the most part the products work well.

Cons

the changes here can become unbearable. The territories constantly change and the way that you get paid will change every quarter it seems like. Sales reps feel disrespected and most seem to be unhappy. Fortinet seems to have the Jerry Jones mentality - you should feel privileged to work for Fortinet even if we pay you a fraction of your worth.

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