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      Proofpoint

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      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

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      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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      1K reviews
      2.0
      Jun 19, 2017

      Great product/market fit, poor engineering vision and leadership

      Engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      * Market leading products. * Very unique data/challenges due to product and market position. * Some great people. * Generally good work/life balance.

      Cons

      * Low morale and burnout in multiple engineering groups for a variety of reasons: * Poor to non existent engineering vision from management and executives. Engineer lead initiatives are ignored. * Teams have to work with productivity destroying tooling; executives don't care enough to invest in substantive improvements. As an example, work that should take minutes take hours or days. * High turnover and understaffing in Operations severely impairs the ability of engineers to deliver. Time is frequently spent doing things operations should handle, or waiting on availability. * Weak and ineffective middle management. * High pressure to deliver on severely understaffed teams. * Constant priority churn. * Many key engineers looking for the exit. * Excellence in engineering simply isn't in the leadership vocabulary. * Office politics becoming major problem. Result is creation of engineering silos, and secrecy so teams don't lose their favored project. * Expensive health care * No 401k match

      4.0
      Apr 28, 2017

      4.5 stars.

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Fast, fast growth, 30%+ per year Management team has taken the company from zero to 5th largest security company in the world. Opportunities to get your hands dirty in all sorts of things good work life balance (in most departments). Above average comp Company takes very good care of it's people. Products actually work, and work better than the competitors. Company has cleared out a lot of deadwood management.

      Cons

      Some departments better than others No 401k match Large-company experience and politics are creeping in, some favoritism.

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