Downhill ride - Anonymous employee Forcepoint Employee Review

2.0
Aug 12, 2010
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The physical location in San Diego is good. Co-workers are friendly and are generally nice to be around. Has a relaxed dress code and well defined working hours of 5:00 AM to 5:00 PM pacific time.

Cons

It is like working in a poisonous environment. It is incredibly hard to remain upbeat as the people around you are all disgruntled and downtrodden. Upper management has no concept of reality as to the amount of effort required to meet certain goals to achieve a bonus. If the goals are not met on achieving the quarterly bonus then everyone is made to feel like a failure as the so called "bonus" goals are set as an absolute minimum in standards rather than as an incentive to achieve above and beyond. In the past even when these goals have not been met the benchmark has been pushed higher and employees ridden harder to get them with no change in approach. Employees are expected to make many person sacrifices with no recognition and are left to feel guilty if they cannot go above and beyond due to any person commitments that were made long before the company asks for any extra time from them. If an employee does make the personal sacrifice, the attitude from management is that this is just normal and not deserving of any recognition as if they did not do it they are failing to do the minimum for their job.

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To see the evolution of Forcepoint over the last few years has been impressive. We continue to grow and invest in our company and people. I feel as if I make an impact in the company and always feel appreciated. Forcepoint is a great place to excel. Our CEO personally cares about the success of the people and company.

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Cons

I am making $185k total comp as a basic Marketing Manager. Not even a 'Senior' Manager, but just your basic peasant-class Manager. How can I be making as much money (or more) than some of the Forcepoint staff lawyers, more money than some junior-level medical doctors, but my job title is equivalent to that of some recent college grad? This matters because my job is Director-level in everything but title only. All my KPI's, performance reviews, and work, is at the Director level. But because I am a basic manager, some of my peers treat me as if I am 23 years old making $70k/yr with bare bones KPI's. This creates an awkward situation because I am paid more than many colleagues who have more senior job titles than me. But since we do not openly discuss salary, my peers do not know this and think my KPI's are basic, when really I have much higher KPIs than colleagues with more senior job titles It is silly that some peers are making 20-30% less than me, but have more senior job titles just because of tenure - which is a meaningless indicator of performance.

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