Forced RTO - Software Engineer II Proofpoint Employee Review

1.0
Jan 19, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Management is overall pretty great, even were fighting and recommending a lighter RTO policy.

Cons

Proofpoint CEO Sumit Dhawan integrated SWEEPING changes after only being in office for under a month. Forcing RTO on families that have been without child care expenses, forcing people to commute up to an hour. Alan Le Fort before he was let go due to "restructuring" after only a month as CEO as well told employees that they would only need to come in a few times quarterly. There is 15 parking spots for 200 employees or your other option becomes paying $600 monthly to do the same job you were doing at home. This was ONCE a great company, I would steer clear and am personally one of many looking to leave.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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Proofpoint Response
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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
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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