The company is more or less gone - Anonymous employee Proofpoint Employee Review

1.0
Feb 21, 2024
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

There's still some caring and supportive culture towards the bottom of the company.

Cons

The company is completely screwed. It was a great company to work for for 10+ years, had an amazing and supportive employee culture, with great success on the market. But then it was handed over to new management who implemented layoffs, RTO, and openly mocked anyone who was hurt by the decision re: childcare ("my problems are your problems and your problems are your problems" - said several times by Sumit Dhawan). The CEO hired a security detail to protect himself from his own employees. That should really tell you how things are going. It sucks, because I really want to like this company and continue working here, but I can't justify it any more. And even if I stayed, the company will probably go under in the next 5 years after this chaos.

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Cons

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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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