Middle Management Nightmare - Anonymous employee Proofpoint Employee Review

1.0
Jun 17, 2021
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Publicly traded stock with decent market value.

Cons

Management is an absolute nightmare. If you're an engineer, I highly recommend running for the hills from this place. It's where dreams go to die. They will undervalue you and treat you like garbage. HR at this company will not assist you, and will actively try to push you out the door if you express any problems. Significant pay raise and quality of life increase after leaving this company for me. Proofpoint simply does not value retaining talent or encouraging skill growth. They will not assist with any training. Empty promises typically. Management will actively use anything you express as negative, against you. They'll utilize HR to pressure and manipulate your actions. This place is hands down the worst place I've ever worked at in my career.

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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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