No Career Path and Subtle Sexism - Senior Software Engineer Proofpoint Employee Review

2.0
Apr 25, 2019
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Pros

Work life balance Good pay Collaborative Work culture Technology driven Use of latest and greatest technology trends

Cons

1. For Engineering org - Subtle form of sexism - Women are hired to get the job done but no career path is provided, no promotions. For any opportunity to grow into leadership position - 99% of the time a Male is hired from outside to lead (often times less experience and not qualified) 2. No Career development opportunity 3. lately hiring is pretty much driven with heavy influence from referrals hence quality of hires has slided to new lows. 4. In last 1 year, Few of Engineering executives hired don't event have experience and qualification for first line managers. 5. No interest in employee retainment, Management don't care even if their best people leave.

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1.0
Jul 5, 2026
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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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