Mixed Bag - Senor Sales Engineer Proofpoint Employee Review

2.0
Dec 31, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good technology, decent base pay + commissions (if you can make your number), and great direct manager. Some of the hardest working engineers, developers, and sales engineers in the industry. Great diversity and decent culture. The CEO is great, but he doesn't have the power to change the cons.

Cons

Poor 401K matching ($1500 per year). Extremely difficult to make your quota with pooled territory. Hard work and long hours go unnoticed and unrecognized. The company has stopped employee stock purchase program and shares to compensate employees (hard to get to 100%). This was a key benefit to being an employee and helped with total compensation. No industry training, no employee discount program, and mileage reimbursement doesn't match IRS rate. SEs will put in a lot of hours without a direct return for their efforts and odds of getting recognized for awards or President's Club is like winning the lottery. No real spiffs for SEs, instead you get tokens or tickets which are placed into a raffle drum... terrible.

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5.0
Jul 16, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great work life balance a lot of growth within the company. Great leadership.

Cons

Do not expect remote work

1.0
Jul 5, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

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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