Darktrace reviews

3.2

45% would recommend to a friend

(249 total reviews)
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Jill Popelka

67% approve of CEO

44% positive business outlook

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2.0
Jul 14, 2020

All work - no pay

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Pros

Great technology to sell. Lots of R/D.

Cons

Distant, robotic, executives that haven’t actually sold anything, themselves, in 10 years. Expect to sell technology that’s twice the market rate, and in half the time. You will get a tiny “commission” and 50% of will be held hostage until you complete an arbitrary task. Expect to have more responsibility given to you, with no additional compensation. And expect to be labeled as greedy when you ask why. Expect to close millions in revenue, and be compensated, with a shout-out via email, instead of dollars.

2.0
Jul 9, 2020

Dont do this to yourself

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Pros

Awesome coworkers, pre pandemic the travel was fun, and the technology is great. Perform well and there are promotional paths, ability to get into sales management much faster than most organizations.

Cons

Too many reps in each territory with no named accounts, so a mad scramble to grab companies to prospect. Micromanagement to the extreme (no joke, 5 webex meetings a day at the start of covid just to babysit us) No sales enablement tools, all home built systems. You will miss Salesforce. Unfair commission structure with half withheld for a year, most reps make less than 30K commission yearly unless you get really lucky. So bad that people quit during the pandemic without another role.

1.0
Jun 30, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

Only pro is all the bad things I went through have made me fearless and able to identify toxicity immediately and call it out. You might have some fun times out drinking with coworkers but you will never talk to them again if you leave.

Cons

Absolutely no support and growing too fast. They believe if they hire more Sales people the product will sell. But the market is congested, the territories are congested, and there is no hope. Toxic work environment that is white male dominated and sexist. Sexism abounds. The only benefit of having 2 female CEO's is for marketing purposes- they have never indicated any sense of supporting other women. In the office, the directors are male, white, and entitled. They sit behind a glassdoor with no experience other than being barely successful at Darktrace. This company will not invest in you. You will have to teach yourself everything to survive. "Training" is less than 2 weeks and is only a light overview. Pay is low, no bonuses or raises given- even when promoted to Team Lead taking on the management of 4 others. You are told to not be friends with the other people in sales. Especially if you are promoted, you are instructed not to fraternize with others. Women are policed on the way they dress while the men swap Juuls back and forth and cuss at the women to their face in front of everyone in the office. There is constant gossip and talk behind the backs of others. When someone is promoted, everyone else resents them instantly. If you last even 9 months, you are a survivor and a veteran. A year is an eternity. I took the job, ignoring the bad reviews, over a different company, lower role and lower pay and told myself I would get out after a year- if I could go back, I would absolutely not do this. The OTE recruiters tell you is a lie. There is one person that has ever achieved this and this person did so by poaching other accounts. Metrics are near impossible to attain but that is the sole way you are judged. You can either get lucky or be an office favorite and receive special attention. Even people who work harder than everyone else in the office get overlooked. You will give everything of yourself and receive NOTHING in return.

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