how is it? weighing my options for my first job out of college and i hear PAN pays a lot but the culture leaves plenty to be desired. yoe: new grad tc: 0
Pan culture is better than most of the places I worked at.
Where else have you worked?
Networking companies mostly. I am working for last 12-14 years
PAN culture isn't as good as it used to be but as an entry level employee you'll probably be shielded from the negative aspects. Overall good culture and plenty of young folks. They do pay very well but probably similar to Google and FB.
That's great to hear, I was reading reviews on Glassdoor and people have said that the culture isn't that great so that's why I wanted to ask around and validate
It is getting more big corporate politics by the day. Most of the hires are non technical, and they put the non technical people in management, so the culture, imo, is going downhill noticably fast. Still not bad, but it's definitely going downhill.
I'm an entry level engineer of panw (title is staff engineer here lol)and this is my first job. They really pays good even beats some ng offer of google lol. Culture is good, colleagues are supportive. I think growth is depending on your position, for networking and backed engineer (or QA?) here is a good place to work and learn but I decided to quit as I'm a frontend engineer…
I am glad you quit early that was really good move. Culture is really bad here. I wish I knew earlier before taking the offer.
Been here over 5 years, it USED to be a vibrant, creative and collaborative think tank on the cutting edge. Now......it has declined. They've brought in Google rejects who are basically destroying any inginuity or creative collaboration. We are now bean counting metrics gatherers and if the metrics aren't good then we must have failed. Toxic HR, toxic management.....people are fleeing in droves! BEWARE....
@Drewid 💯 Agreed.
What r ur options? Any competing offers?
Waiting on offer from SAP, and onsites in the next few weeks with Google and FB
Cool. IMO a better question would be how X's culture is compared to Y. Otherwise it's hard to answer