Good Products, Poorly Run Company - Anonymous employee Proofpoint Employee Review

1.0
Sep 11, 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Proofpoint has a good story and good stock rewards because the stock price is high.

Cons

How you are treated/environment depends on which group you work in and which location. There is a lot of sexism and fear, which causes people to not always work well in supporting co-workers. Environment can be very political and territorial. There are a lot of agendas and bad behavior in upper/middle management. For group events, employees have to pay for everything. There's not even a small budget allowed for going away parties or to celebrate promotions. Almost half the company has not had a 1 year anniversary. You’re either a lifer or you don’t last very long.

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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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