Proofpoint

None. Avoid like the plague. Sell if you own.

1. There are regular layoffs.

2. There is 'Competitive pay' that isn't.

3. There are pathetic equity rewards.

4. Even hired as remote, if you live within 25 miles of an office, you will have to go in to the office 3x a week.

5. There is C-suite turnover.

6. It is meeting hell. Do you like to hear quarterly sales meetings? Live and die for the run to IPO. This is the company for you.

7. There is unclear direction, hellish duplication of code and responsibilities as Proofpoint tries to acquire its way to relevance.

8. They WILL fire/lay you off after FMLA. It happened to me. One month after returning from FMLA, I was laid off.

9. They talk a good line about work life balance but will make you show at 4 am on a Saturday for a release.

10. The interview process contains no actual filtering for talent or ability and managers give no poor feedback. So everything is fine until you get laid off.

Get a soul? Care about customers? Care about employees at least enough to give them actionable feedback, or hey? Not violate labor laws by laying off your sick employees? Or even build a company that will last beyond the vesting schedule of the CEO.

Every other security company is in a better position to actually function after its IPO. This one isn't.