Forcepoint reviews

4.0

76% would recommend to a friend

(1,342 total reviews)

Ryan Windham

80% approve of CEO

69% positive business outlook

Forcepoint has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 1,342 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Forcepoint employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Tecnologías de la información industry (3.9 stars).

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1.0
Aug 25, 2010
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Pros

Websense has industry leading products that give a tech great opportunities to learn and grow. There is interesting, challenging work, with great customers. As others have pointed out, it's great to have work at a stable company in these times! There are a lot of great people that you get to work with. Even the managers that shill for the company in these reviews are pretty nice people to work with.

Cons

Upper levels of management are destroying the morale of tech support at a stunning rate. I have difficulty imagining that they are not doing it on purpose, it's so well done...but that is crazy, so it must just be a misunderstanding of some kind. There seems to be some trouble in staffing the Tech Support department well, and this has led to poor customer satisfaction. Rather than dealing with this head on, management is trying to find shortcuts. I hope that by the time they realize that there ARE NO SHORTCUTS TO CUSTOMER SERVICE that too much damage has not been done.

1.0
Aug 23, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

Challenges can be daunting and require a real sleuth to find the root of the problem. There is some freedom in creating "unofficial" solutions, and then documenting them later. Your peers will stand behind you and openly share information with you. You can get certified in internal certificates, forget about most third-party certs though. Benefits are decent. The occasional donuts and bagels are nice, but aren't worth the aneurysm.

Cons

Management is always looking for a "new" process to fix everything. Customer Satisfaction(CSAT) is a management goal/metric that will either get you canned or praised, but management lacks the ability or desire to think about CSAT in a broader sense and instead attempts to leverage it personally against/for the individual who receives it. The top-down management system that is implored will have you chasing your tail trying to make sense of why you're getting written up, put on plan or even fired. Though occasionally management gets headed in the right direction, it's usually veered off course due to detached orders from the VP. Work expectations will leap from normal, to insane and finally to ludicrous at any given point without warning and without taking in to account your current workload, they'll just keep piling, then point the finger when customers get upset at the time to resolve. There are very few technicians at this point that are not ready to jump ship when the right boat rolls in.

4.0
Aug 23, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

Industry Leader great work environment Fortune 500 Customers Professional growth (They're paying for my CCNA!? :) good salary This is a high productivity environment - caused by the nature of the product. You have to be able to multi-task

Cons

Generally a great bunch of people, and many of the techs are brilliant - but some of the oldtimers don't seem to get it and just complain - 2002 called and wants those techs back. We have an appliance now - Dell support for the hardware is lame - they won't come on site until you tell them what's wrong - what if the box won't boot???

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