Where talent goes to die - Anonymous employee Recorded Future Employee Review

2.0
Oct 17, 2023
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Reasonably strong product and a good mission behind it. Good market/space to be in. Not much else.

Cons

This company has so much potential, but is held back by archaic business practices and difficult exec leadership. COT is not receptive to employee feedback/input. Several C-suite execs are openly verbally abusive. Commercial strategy shifts constantly. Most teams are not staffed adequately to keep up with those changes. Advancement is incredibly uneven and most opportunities are mired in favoritism. Proven you're good at what you do? Be prepared to be slapped with extra responsibilities without an increase in comp. And if you ever do get an actual promotion, don't expect the comp to keep pace with what you'd get externally. The return-to-office policy is incredibly unpopular. The exec team (half of which works fully remote) could not care less. Remote employees and those in other offices are reasonably happy. Most Somerville-based staff is miserable.

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5.0
Apr 27, 2026
Anonymous contractor
Recommend
CEO approval
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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
CEO approval
Business Outlook

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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