Forcepoint reviews

3.9

72% would recommend to a friend

(1,339 total reviews)

Ryan Windham

77% approve of CEO

67% positive business outlook

Forcepoint has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 1,339 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 Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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1K reviews
5.0
Nov 28, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

The company truly values engineering excellence and gives SREs the autonomy to solve problems the right way. Collaboration across teams is strong, and leadership encourages experimentation and continuous improvement. Work–life balance is healthy, and the on-call rotation is well-structured and fair. Plenty of opportunities to work with modern tooling, improve infrastructure reliability, and contribute to meaningful architectural decisions.

Cons

Honestly, I haven’t experienced any significant downsides. The culture, team dynamics, and technical challenges have all been extremely positive.

1.0
Mar 14, 2019

LAYOFFS

Recommend
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Pros

Generous PTO oh, if you can take it without falling behind. Some hard-working individual contributors just trying to do a good job. A 5% match on your 401k, which only gets distributed at the first of every year. You get to put Raytheon on your resume with an asterisk.

Cons

There are too many to name but let me just leave you with one thing. Cyber security as an industry is growing at an explosive pace. This company just had to lay off a good portion of the workforce. that should tell you everything you need to know about how grossly mismanaged this company is. We had to rebrand three times in the two years I was there. They brought in several external agencies to do most of the work but since the people watching the agencies were incompetent comma the real work fell on employees that had no insight to what was going on 4 months prior. This might be normal for all companies but it's truly astounding how bureaucratic this company is and the level of undermining that I experienced.

1.0
Jun 10, 2018

Utterly clueless

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Some nice people and the paychecks don't bounce...yet.

Cons

This place is in existence to make a very few people a lot of money. Any pretense of building culture or interest in employee satisfaction is only because they think that's what they need to do in order to keep the wheels on. - No real product strategy unless you call their lipstick on a pig "human point" nonsense strategy. - No prospect for professional growth - No space for any individual thought. Every all-hands is like a Fascist rally from the 30's, just replace zeigheil with "all in to win" and you've got the essence of the cult.

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