Account Executive - Account Executive Darktrace Employee Review

3.0
Sep 15, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Decent pay. Great training. Great team members.

Cons

It's an expensive product that begins with a cold call and comes with a long sales process (30 days minimum before we even present a contract), which equals to 99.9999% failure. Flakey leads and EXTREME MICRO-MANAGING. They track your every click and monitor the activity you put in. It's pure luck if you find a company that would want to do even a free trial. The training focuses on the technology, but not enough on what you'll be doing 99% of the time: cold calling.

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5.0
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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
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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