Good Culture, bad management - Anonymous employee Proofpoint Employee Review

2.0
Mar 14, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Friendly helpful people can be found from outside of your organization.

Cons

Staffing and HR don't talk to one another while they are supposed to be one team. Unless you are chummy with the mgr. don't expect to move anywhere. The team is very clicky and staffing is a revolving door where the good people leave while the bad people are still there. Some people are converted after only being there for a few months while others work for years before they are converted. Their reasoning is over the top ridiculous because they don't want you to leave. Upper management doesn't care about the well being of the team.

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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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