Proofpoint

• Investing in employee learning and growth: In recent months we have had a surge in the number of training sessions for engineers, including sessions to teach ML and DS companywide. Attending conferences is encouraged and supported.

• Growth potential: Product vision leverages Proofpoint’s unique-dominant position in the market to solve customer challenges. It’s quite exciting to be engineering groundbreaking projects every quarter!

• Startup engineering culture: Some of Proofpoint’s backend technology choices/implementations can’t keep up with service growth. Leadership has repeatedly shown a willingness to invest in rebuilds and broader initiatives for the migration of old services to newer tech stacks.

• Only one extra monitor permitted per engineer
• Infrastructure and operations tools inhibit engineering’s ability to deliver
• 401k matching program leaves a lot to be desired

Proofpoint runs a tight ship, which has been appropriate historically for their industry. But the times have changed and cybersecurity is much more lucrative than it once was. This change is not reflected in spending habits and corporate culture. Continue to increase investment in your people and they’ll deliver on the $1B revenue goal.