Great Company. Became the company they said they were trying to be different from (AKA Cisco) - Anonymous employee Proofpoint Employee Review

1.0
Jun 10, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The Sunnyvale, non sales team, is a great group.

Cons

The sales leaders in Sunnyville and Salt Lake City DO NOT CARE about the Salt Lake City group. They treat the office like their own outsourced call center, where they can pay their employees less and offer no room for advancement. If somehow you manage to make it to the next level they provide no training to succeed in your new role. I WOULD HIGHLY RECOMMEND LOOKING ELSEWHERE IF YOU ARE CONSIDERING SALES AT PROOFPOINT IN SALT LAKE CITY.

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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
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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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