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 1, 2023

Hoping 2023 Improves

Recommend
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Pros

Industry leader in email security and email authentication. Good health, dental, and vision benefits (Cigna/VSP), but company contribution could be a bit better. Good at acquiring companies that can be integrated. Lots of good technology honestly but not all are in Gartner MQ making it difficult to sell in some instances.

Cons

Growth opportunity is limited to select people; few are promoted from within. Very difficult to exceed sales quotas when accounts are being poached by strategic accounts and middle-enterprise. Principal Sales Engineer role is virtually impossible to obtain. SEs are not treated as account team equals when it comes to recognition; however, we are critical to every deal. Expectations for SEs are constantly growing, but pay remains stagnant, and even top performers don’t get decent cost of living increases. It’s really discouraging looking forward into 2023 and beyond. We are starving for accounts to make our number.

1.0
Mar 31, 2022

Cheap company and horriblr internal promotions

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Solid culture and very friendly colleagues that are always willing to help. Management is great as well but they can only do so much to help you when it comes to compensation.

Cons

All the internal promotions I have received were absurd in terms of pay. HR will try to do anything to give you the bare minimum instead of a competitive offer like everywhere else. I feel like they have cut back on my raised which is a total turn off.

3.0
Feb 9, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

* Industry-Leading Technology * Work with some really smart people * Proofpoint has a reputation in the industry of being the best at Advanced Email Security Protections

Cons

* MicroManagement is out of control. Too many layers of manages needing their own spreadsheets filled out to report up to the next. * Quotas are completely unattainable which is by design and controlled by CFO; Everyone has the same quota in segment and has nothing to do with your actual territory or opportunity space within your book of accounts * Very Limited leads, unqualified at best. * Still building out partner ecosystem; need to do a better job of in incentivizing/ working with partners to drive business our way * Bait and switch environment; Told one thing when you come into territory and complete opposite takes place. When you bring it up, no one seems to cares * With a company of this size, 401k match is very low at 2% compared to industry * Too many layers of management- 6 layers between rep and CEO * Growth happened too fast this way behind on improving internal technologies, slow systems, quoting tools etc. * We are known in the industry as an “email security company “. Good when selling email security, not good when you are trying to sell anything else. * Very expensive solutions compared to market

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