Check Point Software Technologies reviews about "manager"

Portfolio diversified with multiple best of breed competitors across the board

Outdated Management! The leadership structure is slow and resistant to modern change. Management assumes an "always been done this way" mindset, leading to unnecessary roadblocks and missed opportunities for innovation. The focus is on maintaining the status quo rather than adapting to the market. Sales Engineering team here in the us is completely stagnant, they run this team like they always have for 20 years now, & when they say "we need to modernize & change" - mgmt fires or demotes the good talent we have, but never addresses the real problem, the same people have been our "Heads of Engineering" for 15+ years & still think you need 20 years of experience to "be at their level" - what a joke. There is a persistent culture of old managers who seem to derive authority solely from seniority, rather than current expertise or forward thinking vision. Compensation is well below industry average & we are losing good talent every day. IMO the company is on it's way out, will probably be sold or acquired somehow in the next couple of years. This one won't survive the AI boom. I'm still working here, but actively looking for a way out.

Bad community and employees services. Too many old fashion employee

lack of challenges, big lack of strong people to learn from, average-low salaries, no raises in the last few years at all. Most of the mid/top managers are unprofessional ex-big-dinosaur-corporate workers. almost zero benefits , terrible gifts on Rosh-a-shana and Pessah, no parties or cool events, mostly health/sport zooms and lessons.

Older and outdated people in management team, with no focus on customers and only want to achieve retirement (5 to 10 years). Targets and accounts are set without a logical reason

Some of the management have a micro-management style

The AE/SE pairing model is broken, and there is no functional escalation path when it goes wrong. I spent three years split between two partnerships: one where I was actively undermined, scapegoated in front of customers, and effectively muzzled from communicating directly with prospects near quarter-end—and a second where I carried the full strategic and technical load for an AM who openly described himself as "not an IT guy" in customer meetings and never developed the fluency the role requires. In both cases, I raised concerns. In both cases, nothing structurally changed. The compensation model is inequitable by design. SEs run 80/20 salary-to-commission. AMs run 50/50. But when attainment is shared, SEs absorb identical downside with a fraction of the upside. Across three years I received zero raises—not one—while the cost of living climbed steadily. I was passed over for RSUs in years where my AM, carrying the same attainment number, received them. My final performance review contained auto-generated language threatening my job. My AM's did not. Same number. Different consequences. No one ever explained why, because there is no good explanation. Leadership stood on a CPX stage and invited "brutal honesty"—displayed the CEO's email on the screen and told us to use it. I did. The response I got wasn't from the CEO. It was from a middle manager telling me to filter feedback through hierarchy before it reaches the top. That's not a feedback culture. That's the performance of one. If you are an SE considering this role: go in with eyes open. You may be evaluated on a number you don't control, penalized for outcomes driven by a partner you didn't choose, and find that the internal systems designed to protect you are mostly decorative.

This company suffers from poor leadership and an outdated mindset. Learning new technologies is often discouraged because leadership prefers to keep things “the way they’ve always been,” even when that hurts growth and innovation. Employees are treated like headcount rather than people. Development, curiosity, and initiative are not genuinely supported — they’re quietly shut down. Several managers actively contribute to a toxic environment. There is a clear lack of empathy, and communication is often dismissive or outright derogatory. Respect is not part of the culture here. If you’re looking for a workplace that values people, encourages learning, and leads with professionalism, this is not it.