Proofpoint

Working in Proofpoint exposes you to important and crucial problems that companies have to face: email security. It makes you learn new ways of solving those problems and at the same time, you learn the ethic impact and cultural approach in doing so. The technology is the top edge the market has to offer, spanning from LLMs to REST API, AWS resources etc.

The culture is very human being centric. They offer Caregiver leave of absence in UK paid at 100% of your salary. They offer work from anywhere options up to 15 days a year. Salary is in line with the market and they pay a generous bonus every year.

No major cons, but the only thing is that given the size of the company, it can take a while to find your feet and get familiar with all the products and stakeholders.

I have been impressed with management in Proofpoint in particular during the Crowdstrike security breach. They explicitly told everyone in the company not to take any advantage or use the incident to point how bad our competitors can be, instead they wanted us to focus on our offer without comparison. Very high standard of ethics and culture living up to the expectation of being honest as one of the core values of Proofpoint.