Poor management, poor leadership - Cyber Technologist Darktrace Employee Review

1.0
Jun 4, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Decent way to get your foot in the door of security industry

Cons

Zero benefits and compensation is on the low end compared to similar sales engineer positions. Vast majority of technical team in the US is “lead” by middle managers with zero management skills. Retention has dropped significantly as the technical team realizes that upward mobility is extremely limited and very small posibility to have an “actual” career here. The fact performance reviews do not exist is a clear testament to this. Darktrace does not seem to be interested in retaining their technical staff and this will only lead to more problems in the future. Effectiveness of the product is also questionable.

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Pros

good pay, good culture and great tech sales exposure

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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