Not the same company - Recruiter Proofpoint Employee Review

3.0
Feb 2, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Great products Good management Good people

Cons

Since the new CFO & CEO came in, the company culture became nonexistent. Their whole goal was to hire cheaper outside the US to replace the 280 employees laid off. Upon the new CEO introduction to the company, he mentioned he doesn’t look at us as “just employees.” That he “cares for our family, your children.” None of that was remotely true. Speaking of remotely… He installed a 3 week notice of mandatory return to site. This left many employees scrambling to get their ends covered to RTS. Now, let’s talk about these layoffs. The CEO sent an email in the late afternoon on 1/30 announcing the 280 jobs being cut on 2/1 and that half of them will be replaced outside US. This put TREMENDOUS amounts of stress & anxiety on employees throughout the company. Why not announce it and do the layoffs the following day? Going back to RTS, he announced the layoffs on the SECOND day of RTS. Why not postpone the RTS till the following week if he knew he was doing layoffs that week? He has mentioned this quote multiple times in various platforms. “My problems are your problems & your problems are your problems.” Comes across as a real class act.

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Cons

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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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