Endless internal politics - Sales Operations Manager Palo Alto Networks Employee Review

1.0
Jun 4, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

* Very solid NGFW product with great customer coverage * A lot of talented and hardworking people *Cutting-edge technology in its core product

Cons

Don't even know where to start, but PANW has the worst company culture that I have ever seen: 1. Managers and supervisors are have zero understanding of the business, also no patient to learn from people who work in the front line. They have absolutely no sense of the workload and time needed in each project, and assign projects based on their naive and arrogant feeling. 2. Non-stop internal politics, endless retaliation and abuse of power. 3. Don't ever speak up and wish to make changes to this organization. Your manager will humiliate you, sell you and ruin you 4. Please do keep all email transactions, and record every zoom call. It won't be a surprise some day you will use those evidences in some labor violation lawsuits.

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