Great Tech, Good Office Culture, Terrible pay grade - Commercial Account Manager Proofpoint Employee Review

2.0
Apr 5, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The Tech is great, customers are impressed and loyal to base products even with the high pricing. Office culture strikes a good balance between friendly and professional.

Cons

Less than 5% of people actually hit their unramped quota along the entire commercial team companywide (~200 reps). Whatever your On Target Earnings may be, take your incentive, cut it in half and that's where you'll likely end up at the end of the year. Attainment plans are way too unrealistic and since management shows no signs of changing this, it appears to be intentional.

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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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