software engineer

territory manager

inside sales representative

business development representative

senior software engineer

Fortinet

Responsibilities include; writing, editing and distributing press releases, whitepapers, case studies, byline articles, blogs, award and speaking submissions; media and analyst relations; story/campaign development and execution; managing North American, Canadian and Latin American PR agencies; collaborating with PR divisions and marketing resources in EMEA and APAC to execute integrated product launches that target the media, channel partners and end users; managing the product reviews program and maintaining the company’s blog, Twitter and Facebook pages.  
Key accomplishments: 
•	Expanded multimedia and social initiatives with recurring Network World Threat Landscape video podcast and increased viewership on the company’s blogs 
•	Established successful brand awareness programs that included topics such as IPv6, mobile security and advanced threat protection
•	Launched awards program that netted multiple awards including Business Solutions’ “Best Channel Products,” CRN’s “Technical Innovation,” Security Products’ “Govie,” SC Magazine’s “Reader’s Trust” and Deloitte’s “Fast 500” 
•	Produced unique byline articles on the topics of cybercriminals, SCADA, cyberscams, zombie awareness and yearly threat predictions

September ‘04 – February ‘10: Group Manager, Weber Shandwick--Responsibilities included

More than 2 years in, I'm still thinking that this is the best place I have worked in the dozen (at least) places I've worked at during my career. The people I work with ALL care about delivering quality and delivering well. Everyone is trying hard and it shows in the results. Things are not perfect, but folks are all pulling towards the same goals. I think that as long as you are willing to work hard, you will be appreciated.  And you will still have time to go catch your kids soccer practice/game or music recital. I have been given the space to do my job and still live my life.  I have been rewarded for my efforts with money and time off. We are offered a TON of training. Most of it optional (we aren't forced to do a lot - just some).
 I know that there are a few managers here and there in the org who could be better, but I'd say that there are many, many more good than bad. 
Depending on the specific job requirements you may have more or less demand placed on you but I've seen a lot of flexibility.  

Like the remote work option but now required back in office 3x week.  It's nice company subsidized lunch, employees can buy lunches EAT club for $5 instead of $15.
Free snacks & icecreams. Quarter-end  some free meals!  Pays not great but some free food perks.  People seems nice in general, new clean building!  My mgr allows some flex PTO, but hard to take toward month-end, year-end, cannot take long PTO like 3 wks unless Im prepared to leave job.  Maybe it's just my position, but not much new skills or learning opportunities, not. much career advancement paths or cross- trained opportunities. I do the job well & got  work done, sometimes a lot of volume in short time. I guess in my dept we have lots of volume of work that need to get done/ processed so no time to learn or train in new things/ skills.   But's it's pretty much dead end easy job for me, not much inspirations or career growth/ promtions!  I should be proactive & look for other jobs with better pay & learning growth.


Great people, product and culture. Fortinet struggled for years as having the best products that nobody knew about thanks to their focus on engineering instead of marketing to buzz words. They also struggled with being inexpensive compared to the competition. The perception that something that costs half as much cannot be better than Check Point or Palo Alto Networks was a challenge to overcome but thanks to 3rd party testing at NSS Labs and positioning in Gartner's MQ they have slowly won the industry over. The only down side to working there in a sales role was that quotas were reset every quarter. This allowed the company to control your earnings as to how much they thought you should make. Little attention was placed on pipeline/forecast or historical performance YoY if they thought you made too much money the quarter before. Comp plan provisions were selectively enforced to justify taking earned dollars from a participant for large deals while not applying equally to management and all sales people tied to the same deal.

High stress, taking calls and chat simultaneously, they should hire more people or organize the workflow better.   You are also required to take a minimum of 10 tickets a day, 40 calls and 7 chats.  

Management knows a  great deal about product but has not been provided with oversight/management training by HR. For example for example consistency of guidelines, stats that affect your job reviews change often and the changes are only sent in email.
I did insist on my last review that they put the stats requirements and any changes on the Intranet and they complied.

A typical day at work involves attending meetings related to internal controls in business processes, planning audits with line manager, workpaper reviews (including guiding and mentoring) completed by staff.  During the audits, we learn about the risks in the internal processes and identify key process owners as points of contact to address issues noted.  The workplace culture is very collaborative.  However, management may not be open to readily improve financial processes when audit findings are identified.  Convincing management on re-engineering manual processes towards automation is the hardest part of the job.  Internal Audit function cuts across various siloed departments and addresses business risks - such a cross-functional exposure keeps life interesting by making you think in a non-routine/auto-pilot manner.  This is the most enjoyable part of the job.

The company's culture is very fluid. There are so many great people there with so much talent. Everyone wants to do a good job and in their own individual way manages to accomplish some really great things. There is very little structure there. This is great in a startup as it allow for agility and individual contribution. In a company this size it actually causes a lot of misdirection and confusion. The company makes some great products and has a great vision for the portfolio (its an engineering company). Unfortunately, there isn't as much emphasis placed on quality marketing and channel programs. The sales organization is often in flux making it difficult to establish momentum before another organizational change occurs.

4 minute has great products and generally has a great culture. there are a lot of very highly technical and confident people who work there. However, there's not a lot of connection between different departments. It's like you have a lot of high pay technical mercenaries.
There's lots of internal moving all the time. People are changing job rolls from 12 the another, so it does not provide any consistency or continuity when needing to escalate for seek other departments for product assistance. For me personally, I had 3 different managers in the first 13 months that I worked there.
So my onboarding for the first 6 months to a year did not set me up for success.

Team mates are very helpful but due to an overload of tasks, you have to learn to keep up otherwise workload piles up. The stats and metrics are difficult with the limited time. You need to be a mega multi tasker to survive here. Be prepared to sacrifice weekends and holidays. Volunteering to work extra hours are encouraged. Frequent changes in policies and procedures. There is huge amount of processes that go un- improved/fixed.

Pay is not commensurate to the amount of work to be done. Management try their best to handle headcount and workload but still not enough due to  huge turnover rate and mounting projects assigned to the department.

Extreme Micro Management, and number oriented. CSRs are expected to help three customers on chat simultaneously while helping the fourth over the phone, and working on at-least 10 tickets per day. We were constantly reminded that we are paid for 8 hours and need to work the entire time. To meet the numbers we could not take any breaks, and most of the employees logged in early to work their tickets so they can take the minimum calls and chats. 

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