its no good - Anonymous employee Proofpoint Employee Review

2.0
Dec 3, 2020
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

they try to act professional

Cons

poorly run. Unless you're a manager don't bother, its no good. If they buy your company start looking for another job there's nothing to look forward to. Its not that big of a company, yet it comes with all the typical problems of one. Bad management, if you can solve problems each time they have an outage, and cover someone's behind, they like you. A top priority is cost cutting, its cheap and management are liars making big promises and forget about it. Its easy to see why Gary's message is "do what you say" because it never once happens that way. And they do secretly lay off people during the pandemic, as soon as they started losing some big customers and had to hide their losses and make budget room. The negative reviews on here are accurate, too many positive ones to be real.

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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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