Used to be great. Nit-picking is eating away at morale - System Engineer Fortinet Employee Review

3.0
Apr 7, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Sales Engineers are remote workers, and most of the work can be done from home. Schedule flexibility Pay is good (but also comparable to similar roles at other tech companies)

Cons

Nit-picking about every little thing is wearing away at morale. Expense reports FREQUENTLY rejected at first-pass for different reasons each time. Heavy lift of training requirements that is mostly expected to be done after work hours. Very little voice in the direction of products or the company. Large product portfolio, but difficult to get specialist support when needed, especially for first-sale deals Quotas used to be challenging but attainable. Now they are becoming unrealistically high.

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5.0
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Pros

Great work life balance. Interesting projects

Cons

Internal tools are lacking compared to other places

5.0
Jun 15, 2026
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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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