I’ve been doing this a long time and have never experienced a company like PANW. The fear of NA and the toxicity that he creates and demands in the culture is unbelievable (but true). No one will stand up to him or share a different opinion, no one challenges him, no one offers new ideas. So this permeates down to how the rest of leadership treats all of their orgs. No room for individual thought or new ideas. It’s all about the firewall and insisting everything is ok to be in the cloud. Customers know better and PANW is not important to any customer or strategic partner. PANW is a widget at best now and an afterthought - not a strategic alliance. NAs whole strategy is to take advantage of the AI fears and breaches and customers aren’t buying that PANW is the right answer. Can’t even get meetings much less revenue. They’re actively reducing their footprint after being taken advantage of for many years and PANW refuses to accept their role in this and right the ship. They blame sales teams, engineering, services and support and demand we give over our own likeness and image to AI for mandatory ‘trainings’, and refuse to listen to customers when feedback is provided on what they need from partnership or product innovation. Leadership brags about working all the time and demanding their people are available on vacation or during times of personal loss. Oh. And try to find true diversity in leadership. I’ll wait….
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"Hello from Palo Alto Networks" messages constantly spam my server log files with unwelcome spy probes. This company eats up so much of my accumulative CPU and bandwidth while violating TOS which forbids these bots. Horrible products indeed. They should be outlawed. As a potential customer I would never use this company, because they are the equivalent of a glass window company going around breaking windows to generate business.
Best time to find a new job is when you have one. Are you even looking?