Fairly quick response, within a month of my application I'd had my interview. Was pretty casual, lasted around 45 minutes. Was given a tour around the office afterwards. Received confirmation of offer within 2 weeks.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Asked to review a code fragment, point out rooms for improvement
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Proofpoint in Oct 2014
Interview
Submit resume at career fair, was asked to phone call with manager. Call was interesting, asked me why I used Chrome, what plugins I used, how browers worked, etc. Followed by an online coding problem and a 45 minute technical interview discussing your solution to the problem.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
A phone number is easy to dial if you can dial on a standard phone layout without lifting your finger. Determine if a given number is easy to dial. Depending on how long it takes, there are additional parts like checking letters, error checking, adding adjacencies, etc.
Internship applicants have rated the interview process at Proofpoint with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 44.8% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Common stages of the interview process at Proofpoint as a Internship according to 1 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 50%
One on one interview: 50%
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