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Check Point Software Technologies

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Check Point Software Technologies reviews

3.6

66% would recommend to a friend

(349 total reviews)
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Nadav Zafrir

65% approve of CEO

56% positive business outlook

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3.0
Dec 30, 2012
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Pros

If you like software development then it's a nice place to work. Nice people. Central Tel Aviv office location. Free and subsidised food. Big office, many people. Regular training opportunities. They do take on fresh graduates, but sometimes the level of training is lacking. Which is a pro and con in one.

Cons

Management is top heavy. The compensation package lacks many perks found at other similar technology companies for example company car, business class travel, comprehensive healthcare and dental.

3.0
Dec 8, 2012

I don't understand why people work here

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Good work/life balance Free lunch Free trip to Israel! Most of the employees (non-upper-management) are good at what they do

Cons

No telecommuting allowed, even checking email from outside the office is a hassle Company is absurdly bureaucratic, down to timing when salaried employees clock in and out. The issue tracking system is used for metrics and constantly gamed by everybody involved. Company is too cheap to get developers standard and decent tools, like large monitors and modern computers. Absolutely no concern for employee productivity. Dogfood is a way of life to an absurd degree. As in, you might not have any access to internal network resources all day because we're dogfooding a buggy firewall build. Very top-down management. Much time is wasted in building and supporting prototypes and mockups and intermediate builds so that the VPs can say that they are terrible. They are the only people whose opinions matter. Products end up getting shaped to meet the needs of the Check Point leadership and not of the broader user base. Weak engineering culture, due to the way projects are managed. Hard to take pride in one's work given the caliber of product turned out and the level of support provided to customers.

3.0
Sep 23, 2012
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Pros

Good quality of employees, stable company, rich company

Cons

Management have very low human skill. Direct managers are like puppeteers, they have no power to change management low approach. This company makes more than $1,000,000 net per day and it is considered the cheapest company in the computer industry in Israel

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