Fortinet Reviews in Vancouver, BC Area

Pros

Low stress
Opportunity to learn new technology
Co-workers are very friendly

Cons

Pay is not great
Opportunity for a promotion is rare

Pros

Developers get lots of ownership over your features.
Stock options and compensation have been very competitive so far.
On the whole, people are friendly.

Cons

Corporate culture is bizarre to say the least. Lack of communication is pervasive between teams, individuals, and from management to employees.

Pros

stable and aggressive growing company in network security area, the company culture is kind of dull and boring

Cons

1. no annual dinner/party
2. no company group activities
3. rare communication among different groups

Advice to Senior Management

more communication and more commitment

Pros

You can learn a lot here and the work is very interesting, at least in my position.
lots of potential to proceed.

Cons

The benefit packages are not so good, lots of co-workers speak Chinese, works not distribute evenly to the team members/teams.

Advice to Senior Management

The productions line spans to much, should focus on several exceptional products to get more market shares, provide more internal training.

Pros

Higher than average base salary. Decent extended health, some dental and vision coverage. Depending on the team, as a developer, you can go in and focus on one single project at a time -- low stress, unless a customer has a critical issue.

Cons

Sick days and vacation days are bundled as "paid time off", encouraging employees to come in when they're sick so they don't use up their vacation time. Not permitted to take partial days off for things like doctor or dentist appointments. (All or nothing. At least if you have a good manager you can arrange to make up a partial day off.)

Ok extended health benefits -- dental & vision are at least better than nothing. No bonus structure. No pension plan or matching of retirement savings.

CEO & CFO have obviously zero concern for employees and seem to not realize it is something that matters. The attitude seems to be "Why would I do anything to build employee morale? That's pointless and costs money."

Advice to Senior Management

Since our salaries (those that I know of) are higher than most other places, why not let them drift a little back towards just being in the high end and use the extra room to add in some benefits like matching retirement savings or (in Canada) covering employees' provincial health plan fees?

Even though employees aren't valued, do things that a company that values employees would do.

Also, spend a little more money to gain higher returns on productivity. Buy good tools that increase productivity. Hire people to handle miscellaneous admin tasks. Why are highly paid software developers spending time fighting incomprehensible forms to order equipment? Why are they troubleshooting and repairing their own workstation hardware issues instead of having some tech do the repairs?

Pros

1, Salary is not bad.
2, It is a growing company, and you will be given some options.
3, Almost no overtime.

Cons

1, The benefit package is not good.
2, No team build, no training (if have, only little).
3, Co-workers speak Chinese most time.

Advice to Senior Management

We need team build and training every year.
A much better benefit package including group MSP plan.
And, better PC with MS Windows please.

Pros

salary is ok, time is flexible, many chinese guys, easy for new chinese immigrant. you can have free dinner if you work later

Cons

no rewards, no bonus , even you work harder. administration support is not good enough. typical chinese culture, may not feel comfortable if you cannot speak mandarin.

Advice to Senior Management

it's better if company can offer free parking, people have to leave early to take carpool. free breakfast and lunch are also expected.

Pros

1. most of R&D employees are Chinese, if you can't speak English well, as long as you are technical savvy, it's a good company for you in North America .

Cons

few social activities, actually no kind of company culture, HR should do more work

Advice to Senior Management

passion, I can't see most R&D employee's passion for this company

Pros

make a living. stock option.

Cons

little career advancement, no communication with senior management. messy people collaboration/organization, no intelligence sharing.

Advice to Senior Management

CTO has little technical foreseeing capability. lack of ability to encourage engineers. bad organization. no concept of software engineering. The result is low productivity per capita.

Pros

Pay can be good, the employees are generally nice, and the unstructured nature of the place allows you to take it easy sometimes. Some people are very knowledgeable, and if you're lucky you can achieve a lot. Some people strive to improve themselves and the work they touch.

Cons

Many people are stuck in their ways. Some decisions from above are a bit odd. A bit of a gong show. Communications are weak, and the drive for quality is lacking in some employees. Some process decisions are ridiculous.

Advice to Senior Management

Shape up, we need to make this a more efficient place to work. There are a number of people willing to bust their ass to help, pay attention to them.