Proofpoint Reviews

Pros

My co workers were great.

Cons

Brain drain. The old-timers are permanent fixtures, but the bright new folks tend to move on regularly.

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

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.

Pros

Learn a lot about cybersecurity, opportunities to move up

Cons

growing pains, but growth can be a positive

Pros

Their cybersecurity technology is great. Working with their dev teams is rewarding to most.

Cons

Leadership looks in the mirror every morning and tells themselves how great they are. There is no self-awareness or real honesty. The business growth being strangled by over-controlling CFO and his minions. They have no real marketing leadership and poor execution so sales has to carry the whole business on its back.