I still have PTSD from RF - Sales Recorded Future Employee Review

1.0
Dec 17, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

The CEO demands great coffee in the office and great coffee is what we got. We had some AWESOME customers and I spent most of my time on the West Coast hanging with great people from exciting companies

Cons

Run for the hills! A culture of complete disrespect and bullying. Insecure female sales leader who had other strong sales women or customer success women fired based off her personal, no-good-reason dislike for them. There was no formal training. People are rude to one another- office tensions felt palpable. Customers were awesome- the only pro. Unfortunately the product was too weak for the pricetag and customers saw right through it. Manager "saved" deals by basically offering product for pennies, then blamed it on sales team. Manager told me repeatedly I was "lucky to have a job," I alerted HR, and 2 days later was told RF wasn't a good fit for me, "but you can keep your macbook!" Ha! I watched sales people who were fearful of getting on the phone get promoted- the favoritism/boys club is legit. This is definitely not a place of support, learning or problem solving. Someone always pointing the finger at someone else. What a shame. A weird mix of complete dweebs or washed up bros- glad I moved on.

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5.0
Apr 27, 2026
Anonymous contractor
Recommend
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Pros

Great environment, welcoming and friendly culture, lots of opportunities to grow, everyone wants to see others succeed

Cons

I can't think of any

2.0
May 25, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

-Good salary, but the benefits could improve, especially 401K.

Cons

Where to begin? Recorded Future has become an absolute mess of a workplace, particularly on the go-to-market side of the business. The sales team lost a huge percentage of its highest performing reps last year and constantly turns over management. Sales/marketing ops has lost so many people it almost doesn't exist at this point. Marketing has lost its best ICs and several key leaders. The GTM org is hobbling along, completely bereft of actual leadership, and with expectations so out of touch with reality, you'll start to wonder if anyone upstairs has ever led a revenue org before. Exec leadership is a mess. Several execs are needlessly, unproductively combative/unkind and provide their departments with little support. For some reason, RF is viewed by leadership less as a software company and more as an unofficial branch of the military/intelligence apparatus, with an unnecessary degree of unsmiling seriousness applied to everything. This culture of beating down employees has resulted in the departure of nearly every top performer that was holding most crumbling teams together, resulting in a pace of movement so glacial, you'd think you actually ARE working for the US government.

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