Disconnected and Underwhelming Leadership - Mid-mgmt Proofpoint Employee Review

2.0
Jul 30, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Some nice people. Good technology. Good technical training.

Cons

Out of touch leadership seems more concerned with their optics and very top-down approach. Newer leadership seems to not have the relevant experience or background required for their roles in some cases. Out of date tactics to get results but not interested in listening to what their teams need to be successful. Very segmented, silo'd and so many people doing the job of what is just part of other people jobs elsewhere but slower and less effective results.

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5.0
Jul 16, 2026
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Pros

Great work life balance a lot of growth within the company. Great leadership.

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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