Don't work here if you value yourself - Account Executive Darktrace Employee Review

1.0
Jun 26, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

You will feel cool... for at least 20 minutes. You'll be employed but you won't have a happy existence.

Cons

Micromanagement at it's finest. Management changes it's mind on a whim and expects you to have read their mind after changing policy (and made when you dont know). They only hire attractive people from ivy league schools and do not value diversity. In fact, you'll probably make a lot less if you are not a white man. If you discuss your compensation with colleagues, leadership gets annoyed. Don't let the few women in positions of "power" fool you, they are just puppets to the man. No matter how big your deals are, you will never be valued. What have you done today is the mantra of Darktrace. Weekly sales calls take long and they are just for forecasting.. not to actually help you succeed. You will not get proper training and your managers have never been trained either. Sales engineers feel as though they rule the land and can determine whether or not your deal goes through based on how they feel that day.

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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
Jun 26, 2026
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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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