Great place to work but lacks progression - Business Development Representative (BDR) Fortinet Employee Review

5.0
4 Aug 2022
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Pros

Great place to work and excellent if you are looking to grow your experience in Networking and Cyber Security but also prospecting to Enterprise organisations. Business continues to develop and drive the BDR's to work smart not hard and have a vast range of prospecting tools and an enablement team to help you progress your knowledge and understanding and ensure you are successful. Recognition is a value that is shared once a quarter in QBR's so you will get noticed if you work hard and you will be rewarded. Culture at Fortinet is professional with a charm as you will have many backgrounds mixed together and the people make it a really great office to work in. Lots of perks included things like private healthcare, discounts, mental health support and unlimited coffee, soft drinks and fresh fruit.

Cons

Very slow with progressing people internally and lack of opportunities. Business is consistently hiring externally and has no path for people to grow into various roles in the business.

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5.0
15 Jun 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.

2.0
9 Jun 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Solid, stable, predictable. Most people are out of the office by 4 or 5 pm. Life is easy and expectations are low.

Cons

Little support for marketing. Fortinet has too many products and too many product lines - and every product owner is fighting for attention of sales. The company is firmly wedded to it's hardware roots. Fortinet has not invested in internal systems. Reporting is awkard and cumbersome, and adaption on enterprise AI is still a long ways off. There are no women in senior roles.

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