Was good, questionable upper management - Anonymous employee Proofpoint Employee Review

2.0
Dec 29, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Great sales team. Helpful coworkers and collaborative culture within the Sales Department. Commission structure and accelerators help to offset some of the frustration.

Cons

Proofpoint used to be a great place to work. The culture was fantastic which helped make up for the lower than market base salaries. As of the beginning of 2015, upper management did their absolute best to turn the culture into a sweatshop run by fear. Long fought deals are routinely turned over to someone new at the last moment who is then given credit for the win.

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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
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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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