Your first career move - Cyber Defense Technology Specialist Darktrace Employee Review

2.0
Nov 10, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Innovative company. - Good product, premium range. - Fast deal flow helps exposure to a range of clients. - Young and dynamic environment. Staff mostly made of fresh grads. - Hyper growing company so you are likely to be exposed to articulate development stages collapsed in few weeks/months. - Entry point into cyber security industry for fresh grads.

Cons

- Salaries significantly below industry average. - No performance indicators, “subjective meritocracy”. Little or no performance reviews. - It is relatively unusual to get equity - you are unlikely to benefit directly from growth, which can be frustrating. - Company is at its maturity stage so key roles are taken. - Poor management with no structured or sustainable expansion plan. - Learning curve flattens very quickly. Business model hinges on young grads undertaking repetitive tasks. The ultra flat structure and business model puts a heavy burden on staff. - Sales driven organisation. Little rewards for roles other than sales.

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5.0
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CEO approval
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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
CEO approval
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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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