Not a good place to stay for long term career - Engineering Forcepoint Employee Review

2.0
May 29, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Exposure to cloud infrastructure is quite solid, making it a good place to gain hands-on experience with various cloud technologies. You will grow technically perhaps not to an expert level, but you’ll definitely sharpen your intermediate skills. The managers are generally supportive and approachable, which creates a somewhat positive team environment.

Cons

Be prepared to work with minimal or no documentation, which often leads to confusion and unnecessary pressure, especially during escalations. There’s a constant fear of layoffs hanging over the team throughout the year, which can be mentally draining and negatively impact overall performance. If you’re looking for a stable, long-term career path, this might not be the best place for you. The company is increasingly losing ground to its competitors, with key clients and market share slipping away. There’s a strong focus on introducing new features, but little to no effort is put into optimizing or stabilizing the existing ones, which adds to technical debt and affects product reliability.

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Forcepoint Response
1y
Thank you for sharing your feedback. We value your input and take your concerns seriously. At Forcepoint, we remain committed to transparency and continuous improvement to become an even stronger organization. We wish you success in your future endeavors.

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5.0
Jun 2, 2026
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Pros

To see the evolution of Forcepoint over the last few years has been impressive. We continue to grow and invest in our company and people. I feel as if I make an impact in the company and always feel appreciated. Forcepoint is a great place to excel. Our CEO personally cares about the success of the people and company.

Cons

Fast paced environment, strategy changes as the market changes. fun but can be hard for some.

3.0
Apr 17, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Remote friendly. Good culture depending on the team.

Cons

I am making $185k total comp as a basic Marketing Manager. Not even a 'Senior' Manager, but just your basic peasant-class Manager. How can I be making as much money (or more) than some of the Forcepoint staff lawyers, more money than some junior-level medical doctors, but my job title is equivalent to that of some recent college grad? This matters because my job is Director-level in everything but title only. All my KPI's, performance reviews, and work, is at the Director level. But because I am a basic manager, some of my peers treat me as if I am 23 years old making $70k/yr with bare bones KPI's. This creates an awkward situation because I am paid more than many colleagues who have more senior job titles than me. But since we do not openly discuss salary, my peers do not know this and think my KPI's are basic, when really I have much higher KPIs than colleagues with more senior job titles It is silly that some peers are making 20-30% less than me, but have more senior job titles just because of tenure - which is a meaningless indicator of performance.

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Forcepoint Response
1mo
Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback with us and we aim to use insight from current and former employees to continuously improve. Please feel free to reach out to a member of HR or the Leadership Team if you would like to share more feedback directly.
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