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Palo Alto Networks

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Palo Alto Networks currently holds a 3.5 Blind rating from 732 reviews. Core product: Imported from companies. Strongest marks: compensation and career growth. Recent pulse: 3.6 from 10 reviews in the last 60 days.

Overall
1.27 Amazons
Recent 60d (10)
1.97 Amazons
Perception
1.16 Amazons
Recent delta
+0.70 Amazons
Perception delta
-0.12 Amazons
Reviews
732
Perception votes
15
Last updated
May 30, 2026
Status
Unknown

Distribution

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Score

1.27 Amazons

Percentile

43th

Companies

221

Peak bin

39

0.74 AmazonsPalo Alto Networks is in the highlighted bucket at 1.27 Amazons3.04 Amazons

Metric breakdown

Overall rating

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1.27 Amazons

Recent 60 days

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1.97 Amazons

Career growth

How employees rate long-term advancement and trajectory.

0.96 Amazons

Compensation / Benefits

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1.46 Amazons

Management

How employees rate leadership quality and decision-making.

1.33 Amazons

Work life balance

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1.45 Amazons

Company culture

How employees rate the day-to-day environment and team culture.

1.45 Amazons

Public perception

Elo score

1329

Confidence band

+- 126

Public record

11W / 4L

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Recent reviews

Latest review list

10 reviews from the last 60 days

  • 1. May 21, 2026

    Smart CEO

    4.0

    Current Employee / Finance

    Pros: CEO is hungry and strives for big deals. Middle management sucks or suckers

    Cons: Promotions and stock refreshers are worthless. Leave after 4 years.

  • 2. May 12, 2026

    Always happening

    5.0

    Current Employee / Principal Engineer

    Pros: Good pay, good stocks, leadership is good, culture overall is good

    Cons: Can get toxic at times with unwanted restructures, leadership changes

  • 3. May 11, 2026

    Was great few years ago, now need to be in a clique

    3.0

    Current Employee / Product Manager

    Pros: Decent comp, potentially good collegues. Can provide some stability in this climate.

    Cons: NetSec Mgmt is bad, if youre not ex-Cisco or networked, youll never be noticed

  • 4. May 11, 2026

    Could be a great place to work but...

    2.0

    Current Employee / Sales

    Pros: The pay is good, I guess, compared to other companies of similar size.

    Cons: ...too much politics, too many silos, too many managers running business units like their own little kingdoms. Not a lot of cross collaboration, horrible attrition rates, everyone is nervous because Palo doesn't have layoffs, they have...

  • 5. May 7, 2026

    terrible management and even worse company culture

    2.0

    Former Employee / Senior Manager, Business Operations

    Pros: basically just the pay is pretty good if you negotiate a good offer initially, otherwise, don't expect to get much or any raises.

    Cons: Nikesh the CEO is a greedy pig who doesn't care about anyone but himself and his billionaire buddies.

  • 6. May 8, 2026

    Good company so far

    4.0

    Current Employee / Principal Engineer

    Pros: offers good compensation. very fast paced good teammates good work

    Cons: work life balance can be tricky. lot of work.lack of structure.

  • 7. May 6, 2026

    Good Company if you are part of a lean team

    4.0

    Current Employee / Staff Systems Administrator

    Pros: Nice Compensation structure with respect to peer companies Work life balance

    Cons: Top down heavy post management change Not good top Management

  • 8. April 21, 2026

    Great work life balance and very poor higher management, no exec trust and lack of innovation

    3.0

    Current Employee / Senior Engineering Manager

    Pros: Good work life balance, some smart people, some good leaders

    Cons: When you try to innovate they try to find many ways of shutting down your idea

  • 9. April 20, 2026

    Good company to work for.

    4.0

    Current Employee / Senior Staff Engineer

    Pros: Work life balance Stocks are good In office facilities are good.

    Cons: Career growth Politics is bad Incapable people getting management role

  • 10. April 16, 2026

    Great work culture

    5.0

    Current Employee / Software Engineer

    Pros: Really like it here, good work life balance, would recommend

    Cons: I dont see any downside as of now, good wlb