Darktrace reviews

3.2

44% would recommend to a friend

(1,318 total reviews)
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Jill Popelka

66% approve of CEO

43% positive business outlook

Darktrace has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 1,318 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Darktrace employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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1.0
Mar 10, 2021

Overpromised and underdelivered, disorganized, messy

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

For the position, the base salary is great Healthcare is paid for by the company Healthy amount of PTO

Cons

Cold calling is the tip of the iceberg. Management will tell you they don't micromanage, then turn around and attack you (even if you're getting results) if you aren't making whatever the assigned calls, emails and LinkedIn outreach numbers are for the day. These numbers change daily as management can't make up their minds between getting real results and putting up numbers. Management is horribly unprofessional and frequently jus regurgitates mundane sales tactics instead of listening to the issues and trying to create a concrete solution. Dismal advancement opportunity and for the few who do advance, the work load increase isn't manageable. Productivity goals are unrealistic. There's a difference between realistic goals and stretch goals and management sets minimums at the stretch level and threatens a majority of staff daily about not hitting the goals. Metrics are tracked religiously but real results are not. This leaves room for a lot of shady and dishonest work that reps take advantage of, thus skewing the productivity goals. For a technology company, there are constantly tech problems. Internal CRM is a disaster, although has been cleaned up a bit. Phones are constantly offline. Databases are constantly slow or offline. Way too many issues here and there are only one or two internal IT personell for the entire US. Product cost is too high and continues to increase every year. There's a great sweet spot for smaller companies but most large companies won't justify the cost.\ The biggest problem for a BDR: Darktrace is seen as the sleazy car salesman of the cyber security world due to the amount of outreach they do. They inundate IT people with entirely too many calls, emails, LinkedIn messages, etc and you'll get berated for it fairly regularly. I think customers would rather hear about their car's extended warranty than hear from Darktrace.

1.0
Dec 5, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Travel (pre-covid), Co-workers, Uncapped Commission, Great Product

Cons

Management, Communication, Compensation, Turnover, low morale, they do not value their employees - you are just a number

4.0
Aug 3, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Technology works / sells itself - IT Teams like the product once they see it - Great / charismatic co-workers - You own full cycle of business with same commission for renewals as new business. Being given the opportunity to sell products as expensive as Darktrace with little to no sales experence is rare, and a cool opportunity. - Rapid Growth internally leads to opportunity for promotion within 6-9 months - Travel was fun (pre-covid) - You can make a ton of money off of huge contract values + upsells and renewals

Cons

- Young company culture / young management - Useless business development team - Monthly quota is brutal and will annoy clients - Priced out of conversations (but not really since Darktrace almost always comes down with discounts) - Terrible processes - Commission structure is misleading to new hires (2.5% up front, 2.5% after 1 year) Many reviews on this site are not mentioning that Darktrace is quite patient with sales reps and gives amble time to show improvement and hit goals. If after a year you are consistently not performing you will be put on PIP. Sales is unlike other jobs, where if you don’t succeed, you have management make you feel replaceable. Its unfortunately the case in other sales roles I have had.

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