Proofpoint reviews

3.6

62% would recommend to a friend

(1,179 total reviews)
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Sumit Dhawan

57% approve of CEO

66% positive business outlook

Proofpoint has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 1,179 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Proofpoint employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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2.0
Jan 5, 2023
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Pros

Proofpoint has been a fun and fast-paced place to work. The account teams work well together, but I've never worked this hard in my life. The core products are very solid and the emerging technologies are worth a look. Most of the accounts already own the flagship email security product, and that relationship helps when trying to expand the products.

Cons

Not enough accounts! You will burn hours working with your AE trying to figure out how to sell the additional products into a limited set of accounts. Sales management is always tracking the pipeline and asking us why we never have enough opportunities; while giving you fewer accounts every year. It's too hard for engineers to make money, especially when considering how hard we work. It feels a lot like a 20-year-old start-up with its poor back-office processes, too many document repositories, and every quote needing to be approved by the CFO (massive bottleneck). The company is cheap to a fault, I'm surprised we don't have to buy our laptops. The lab facilities are running on antiquated hardware using OVIRT for virtualization (because free is the best). If you need to do any testing, build it in AWS or another cloud-hosting service, but you can expect to foot the bill. Lastly, you can't rely on the customer support process and often need to fix the issues or nudge support to respond.

1.0
May 23, 2022
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Pros

Good industry reputation, good security solutions

Cons

Terrible Management! They churn-&-burn sales people and they don't know why. Channel has zero trust in PfPt and sales other 'lesser' solutions because the turnover is so high... w/ constant new reps thrown into territory w/out proper training they have a reputation in the Channel for creating inaccurate quotes for their clients. They WILL NOT take into account the need for "time-in-territory" for newer reps not hitting there ridiculously high quota's - There sales management philosophy is to micromanage reps then use PIP's (performance improvement plan) to create the fear of losing your job... obviously creating a very terrible culture! The new ownership after acquisition (1/1/22) puts so much pressure on Management and that constant negative pressure and fear trickles down through the organization .

1.0
Apr 27, 2021
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Pros

It WAS an amazing company. Great people! I thought upper management cared.

Cons

Upper management doesn’t care and sold the company to a heartless investment company who will layoff 10% of our employees - like they have done with every company they bought. Google Thoma Bravo and get the facts yourself.

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