Check Point Software

A free, medium-grade lunch (keep it under $8.00, you stubborn fella!!!) and really nice co-workers.

You do learn a lot when you have access to brilliant minds and internal information.

The massages are nice.

Metrics. If you are measured on your 24 hour closure rate for tickets and every customer says "keep the case open for a couple of days so we can monitor," well, there goes your 24 hour closure rate. Metrics are not used as a means to monitor customer activity and satisfaction, or to reward a good employee for a job well done

Metrics are used as a tool to deny bonuses and raises and promotions.

You are always treated like a juvenile, always needing supervision and grooming.

I personally have a problem with the alcohol. We have a beer keg in the office and many have mini fridges under their desks with more. I understand that sometimes work, especially at Check Point, can get to you, but this can't be OSHA compliant. Maybe one day when someone gets killed leaving work there will be a policy change.

Management? My previous manager was an assistant manager at McDonald's before coming to Check Point. My group manager graduated from community college. I don't think there is anyone at Check Point in a management position who has a full undergraduate degree in the computer sciences below the director level, and maybe most of them don't as well.

But Gil does, and he'll tell you so. He'll go on national cable TV and tell the investor world "Our customers don't know what they want." Smooth move ex-lax.