Used to be a great place to work. - Principal Software Engineer Forcepoint Employee Review

Key note - Ignore all reviews before June 2013 - the company is completely different after the acquisition by Vista. There aren't enough good people left. The benefits used to be decent but are already on their way to the cheapest business cost, worst they can get away with. None of that money flows down to the employees (what little did ended with the end of the public stock and no compensation to replace it). The SoCal surfer 35 hour work week work ethic, at least in Engineering and Admin...Tech Support and Sales were always worked like slaves. Since the acquisition by Vista Equity Partners it is a race to the bottom. The top 25% of talent that wasn't wed to their vacation hours or San Diego have left. The company (and the other San Diego Websense acquistions) are moving to Texas even though the senior management continues to half-heartedly deny it (they say sources were misquoted without saying they aren't moving). The deal closed in June 2013 and there are still no retention bonuses for anybody but executives - that tells you something. Good initiatives from 2012 and 1H2013 to move the product forward and take the support organization to the next level have been gutted and left to rot on the alter of staffing churn and mismanagement. Some of the few tools that were good and worked are being ripped out and replaced with something from the bottom end of the market. The large enterprise push is dead - makes sense because that is a multi-year road to make happen - and the strategy is all about maximize revenue at the middle third of the ladder where they don't tip over but aren't too expensive so they can flip the company before the technical and people debt manifests. The core of the company is security technology and that will be hard talent to find and scale in mid-America and most of the experienced and industry respected folks are gone from that group already.