Unless your kids are hungry,dont come here. - Software Engineer Forcepoint Employee Review

My review only apply to San Diego location where I have worked. I cannot comment what is going on in Austin TX. As everyone mentioned earlier, 2014 was death to Websense. After buyout to Vista, most of people have either left or got fired. Vista's policy is to hire interns and fire seniors or talented people. Being cheap is motto. If you want to see the example, check their new medical plan for 2015. After firing the senior employees in last March, the work is assigned to new junior employees. Get ready to work 24X7 and get ready to work which is not related to your skill. Negative work environment is at the core. This is most anti-social environment I have ever seen and you can see through some of their company sponsor holiday events, where participation from employees are at the lowest point after Vista takeover. Employees are so tired of this work culture is that, many employees did not even participate in Company's feedback/review process. Most of development is sent to China to save the money. This may be common thing now a days but I have never seen, offshore and US teams are so disconnected that they dont even communicate either though IM or phone even though both teams work on same thing !!! Most of employees in China team dont speak good english, so communication is the biggest issue here. Most of the times, US teams dont know what China team is working on. As someone mentioned earlier, people are motivated by fear here and that never helps employee to be productive. Instead they get tired of this toxic environment and someday leave the company. Middle management is totally useless and work on favoritism. Have you ever seen in one team there are 3 employees and 3 managers ? Welcome to the great Websense. Whether your salary is good or bad does not matter here, no matter how much you earn, you will be harassed by management and forced to leave the job.