Toxic environment and fake "growth" - Account Executive Darktrace Employee Review

1.0
Oct 1, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

-good amount of responsibility early on, get to speak to C-level executives and speak at marketing events which helps you grow your speaking and sales skills tremendously (but you can do this in most tech sales jobs tbh) -nice working with people your age

Cons

-As a person of color, i feel like there was a massive lack of diversity that was missing, not in NY office but definitely in the company as a whole -bagels that are catered are always stale -executives could care less about you, they see you as just a number. Its also the blind leading the blind over there, just get new hires like a revolving door, like cogs in a machine -no real career growth, you can become a "manager" and do countless amount of work but you get paid peanuts for it -major disparity in salary even for same position -disorganized mess in terms of sales territory which cause clients to become angry when multiple sales people reach out to the same person -lack of inspiration in the company or transparency -the marketing team makes AEs do their job for them

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5.0
Jun 24, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

good pay, good culture and great tech sales exposure

Cons

lack of internal promotion path, just overall lack of vertical career trajectory

2.0
Jun 26, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Autonomy & Independence: You get great autonomy to build your own schedule. It operates very much like a true field sales motion, which is great if you value independence. Perks: There is a high degree of expense freedom, and the Sales Kickoffs are a definite highlight.

Cons

The company is currently gasping for air and is super misaligned. There is absolutely no sense of direction. The Go-To-Market (GTM) strategy obviously doesn't work because leadership changes strategy it every Half because of poor performance . Turnover is INCREDIBLY HIGH, people was congratulating me that I made it at Darktrace more than a year when I left, which is never a good sign for a company. CEO REPVUE- stated that only 15% of reps hit their goal attainment at Darktrace from it's reviews. If you apply here, you need to know exactly what you are getting into and be willing to work extremely hard just to help dig the company out of a hole.

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