If you value your mental health, walk away. - Account Executive Darktrace Employee Review

1.0
Sep 12, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

There are zero pros to working this scam of a company.

Cons

If you value a healthy work life balance, and your mental heath, then absolutely avoid this place, it is not worth it. Toxic, toxic work culture rife with gossip. Every "manager" micromanages your day to day with endless meetings, listening to all of your phone conversations, and day to day activities. They do this to ultimately enable them to micromanage you out of your job. They are not there to critique you or constructively build you up in your position. They are there to threaten and berate you until you either quit or placed on a performance improvement plan. The average tenure is <6mos or even less, why? People leave jobs because of bad management. The directors, are junior without any real management experience, and everyone on the salesfloor is either new or on their way out. The tech stack, subpar and non effective. Let's discuss pay. If you think you're going to collect a commission check, forget about it, 90% of all reps don't hit quota, and if you think you'll float along surviving on your base salary alone, they'll make sure your managed out with unrealistic high quotas before hand. Closed a deal? Wait a year to collect commissions, if you're luckily still there, most aren't. Think of having a handful of accounts and you're constantly justifying productivity day to day and calling your customers back to back? This place is the epitome of fake productivity and fake work until you have just enough experience on your resume to escape the madness. If you're looking for experience, avoid this place, there are better healthier companies that strive to make you better, not tear you down and throw you out the door like trash and move on the next victim. If you're experienced, think twice. I've seen countless experienced reps leave once they experience the dissary, unprofessional management, and lack of communication. You can do 10x better just about anywhere better than this place. The "higher" base salary doesn't justify itself if most are gone before year 1, let that sink in.

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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
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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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