Challenging role will make you grow or quit - Account Executive Darktrace Employee Review

5.0
Aug 30, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Incredible AI, on the forefront of a world changing industry, Darktrace is an Apex predator amongst giants in the space, prospects are excited to hear from me, first demo’s consistently wow and will move to trial any decision makers of any company. Internal team is fun, super smart, extremely driven and motivating as hell. Executive team is constantly hosting events, sponsoring trade shows and providing never ending incentives to keep winning. 20 days of paid vacation feels endless and they fly us out to Barcelona if we’re in the top 20%. I haven’t even got to the MASSIVE deal size potential. 21 year olds are taking home 100k in commission on their first year! It’s amazing! I bought my first brand new car with my first commission check. Don’t worry about the other complainers. This place is for winners.

Cons

Deal process can be a tad over complicated. Involving too many parties. CTs, CEs, and Upper Managements and CFOs all need to coordinate schedules. POVs are super fragile and can fall apart at any moment. Lots of flakey prospects, don’t get your hopes up too fast. Must have thick skin for heavy disappointment. Training focused heavy on AI fundamentals but not on POV process and how to smoothly carry the value throughout a 30 day meeting process. Seems like veteran reps know the loop holes. ISRs brought up as an AE do the best using their inner connections. No access to trade shows and if anyone meets your lead in real life you have to give it up no matter what. Some fear mongering at first but eventually you get over it and get better or quit.

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5.0
Jun 24, 2026
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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
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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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