Run!! - Anonymous employee Proofpoint Employee Review

1.0
Jan 30, 2022
Anonymous employee
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Pros

You will have a job

Cons

Security company that doesn’t care about security!! Leadership is very stingy with money. There are hardly any perks or retention program in place (even with the massive attrition the company is experiencing). The company rather save money and use the cheapest tools and products. Very very very cheap!! No structure what so ever. The company is basically in a state of nature where it operates with no laws. Very manual processes and senior leaders that are not receptive to change. Each org operates as its own island, specifically in engineering where important infrastructure environments do not talk to each other. Every engineering team does their own thing so everything is a mess.

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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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