Palo Alto Networks

The company has effectively moved to the cloud and has top leadership that gets the market and how to kill it with sales.

Company values make sense, and the ability to recognize peers for these values is such a boost.

Each transition in the company has been accompanied by RIFs.

Despite being a company that expects to grow to $100B in market cap, it has inner politics that keep productive employees from doing their best work.

Be aware there is more on the horizon to comparatively measure and micromanage people out.

Also, the Panorama product and VM firewall have serious scaling issues that will probably never get fixed. Customers are working around these in ways that reduce the need to continue using Palo Alto Networks products.

The 360 surveys are not giving accurate information, even if you feel otherwise.

Leadership has an amazing workforce and is missing an opportunity to share a positive vision based on what they are accomplishing.

Have a farmer’s mentality to grow in areas that are needed. No farmer would ever yell at a crop or try and micro-manage crop performance and see long-term beneficial results.