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Great place for new college graduates, but not a place to stay at

Software Engineer
Former Employee
Worked at Check Point Software for 6 years
July 16, 2015
San Carlos, California
3.0
RecommendsNeutral OutlookNo CEO Opinion
Pros

-Proactive hiring style (you will hear back within 2 days of the onsite interview with a "yes, we want you" or "no, we don't want you").

-Gives people with no experience a chance. A lot of companies are putting out insane professional experience requirements for entry level positions.

-Typical benefits

-Catered lunch system

Cons

-Pay tends to be low and caps early on and all compensation adjustments have to be approved by the IL headquarters

-System of overtime requiring "pre-approval." Usually this just means you work 8 hours a day and go home (which is nice), but sometimes managers introduce crunch deadlines and squeeze uncompensated overtime.

-Career advancement in the CA office for developers is limited.

Advice to Management

Get used to high turnover. Inexperienced people will join and as soon as they learn how things work and get a job offer somewhere else they will leave.

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