Lost Its Culture. Don't Settle For This Company. - Senior Software Engineer Proofpoint Employee Review

1.0
Feb 8, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Used to be a brilliant company about winning together. Now it's all about how much the CEO and upper management can win at the cost of everyone else.

Cons

If you are thinking of joining Proofpoint, keep looking and stay very far away. Proofpoint used to value its employees, but the culture has changed drastically, and you don't want to be a part of it anymore. Sumit Dhawan came in and burned it all down. Almost immediately after joining, he implemented mandatory RTO, leaving people scrambling to find daycare and transportation to the office. The question of why RTO after so much success was raised many times, and there was never a satisfactory answer given. 280 employees were laid off with one day's notice. If you join, that could be you. The company is sinking itself. Do yourself a favour and don't get caught in it. I am gone.

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5.0
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Pros

Compensation is good Teams are nice and helpful Leadership Unlimited PTO

Cons

Return to office policy isn't the best Some co workers are kind of lazy

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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
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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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