Good place to retire, bad for freshers. - Software Engineer II SDE2 Fortinet Employee Review

4.0
Jul 27, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Decent products. People are mostly respectful regardless of age/experience, with low/no politics. Also, access to Udemy Business for upskilling.

Cons

No WFH options. WLB is inconsistent, based on the release schedule. Should have better time management and expectations at the VP level, who are the "real" managers. Freshers should avoid this place. Management does not give enough time to adjust/learn anything properly. For experienced folks, no problem. Pretty great company to retire even.

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5.0
Jun 27, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Great Work life balance. Based on team,got the opportunity to work with multiple firewall vendors.

Cons

No bonus and No ESPP.

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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