The culture needs a lot of work - Senior Management Proofpoint Employee Review

1.0
Sep 7, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

The company offers standard benefits. The colleagues are pleasant. They offer free beverages and dry cleaning services. Occasional work-from-home option is allowed by certain groups.

Cons

The culture is very bad. Too many silos and functional groups do not collaborate or help each other. The company conducts surprise lay-offs of really smart, capable and solid contributors. It hires senior level management only to have them focused on junior level/tactical work. No opportunity for advancement unless you leave and come back.

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Pros

Compensation is good Teams are nice and helpful Leadership Unlimited PTO

Cons

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Proofpoint Response
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Hi. Thank you for taking the time to leave us a review. We appreciate your perspective and we're glad to see that overall you're having a great experience on the team.
1.0
Jul 5, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

fairly lax with lots of time to do things

Cons

many. Former CEO ran things poorly and took in managers who brought along their problems and animosities with them. Not only that, they were allowed to invite their friends to come and join too, many of them owing their jobs to someone creating a bro culture. Even though top mgmt changed since the sale, its many of these people still there to this day. Most of the systems were a black box, existing engineers were mostly uncooperative to keep their knowledge to themselves, the offshore engineers in one particular country were especially bad for this. I have seen major accomplishments achieved by someone, where so many others had failed, only to get fired soon after.

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