HR is deceptive, tech is lagging behind industry - Sales Engineering Manager Proofpoint Employee Review

1.0
Jan 9, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Competitive pay, and due to a buddy system that is hiring poor managers/directors, they are desperate for leaders after so many have quit so you could easily get promoted.

Cons

Poor tools (MS Teams is the company chat program), cheap or nonexistent demo labs for SEs, culture has evaporated, many employees are miserable in their work, and the human resources team is extremely deceptive and dishonest. They promised my colleague a benefits package upon their departure, then claimed that getting a new job disqualified them and suddenly started claiming that the employee had performance issues (absolutely false). Everyone in HR is a complete liar so don't believe anything they say verbally...record it or get it in writing immediately. Employees from the ObserveIT acquisition and others are complete ice cubes when it comes to Proofpoint employees. It's not pleasant and creates a toxic work environment.

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5.0
Jul 16, 2026
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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
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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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