A good place to learn, but a really bad place to stay, no true career progression or work recognition. - Technical Support Specialist Forcepoint Employee Review

2.0
18 Jul 2010
Recommend
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Pros

Overall we can say that Websense is a good place to be, if you want to learn a lot from a technical point of view, don't hope any specific training or real certification that will add value to your cv for carreer progression, you want get it ! The company is considered a leader in Web Security and the software is quite interesting. The technical knowledege that you can get is interesting for the one pushing themselve really hard. The people are interesting and inteligent people to work with.

Cons

The Management is quite poor, target are always increased, bonus never coming. There is no recognition for good work provided, even when the client is highly statisfied. You will not get any specific training on other technology, management will not let you. Sometime you migh have the feeling that they you want you to fail, instead of truly supporting you however you can learn a lot by working with the client, but nothing is in place for your personal development. The technical supervisor are not really suporting as team leader as they unfortunaltely don't understand the product as well as the engineer, therefore they will pretend to help you, but might stab you in the back...Overall this is a good place to learn but definetly not a good place to stay. A lot of people are not happy. The only thing that matter is not the quality of the work that you provide to the client, but the quality of the numbers generated...

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5.0
2 Jun 2026
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Pros

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.

Cons

Fast paced environment, strategy changes as the market changes. fun but can be hard for some.

3.0
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Remote friendly. Good culture depending on the team.

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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