Pros
Proofpoint has the best email security products and other excellent products that work well together which allow for customers to choose what that want to protect most when they want to do it (or can afford to). Good employee stock purchase plan.
Cons
Sales management has gone to micro-management and is out of touch with what the customer facing teams should be doing to accomplish goals. The management style includes over stringent requirements placed on the sales people which is taking away from Sales doing what they were hired for; to sell. There is a big issue with people not making their on-target earnings, but the company seems to be okay with that. One of the "solutions" that Proofpoint has been working on to increase sales is to add more sales people thus dividing territories more. Of course this is making it even more difficult for individual sales people to make their numbers. Overall on-target compensation is already low compared to the industry. So, not making target can mean a significant reduction is total income compared to working elsewhere. Very poor 401k match ($1500 per year in 2020)
