Devastated by leadership change - Training Content Developer Proofpoint Employee Review

2.0
Mar 19, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Some of the best & brightest developers in Silicon Valley, amazing community of people to work with, great support from managers & VP's until recently

Cons

Taken over by a CEO who doesn't understand that just because a division generates revenue doesn't mean it has to generate a profit. There are sometimes intangibles that make a division more valuable than it appears on paper. When the 2008 great recession hit, their goal was no layoffs. When covid hit, again, no layoffs. New CEO, layoffs started in less than 6 weeks.

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5.0
Mar 25, 2026
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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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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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