The frustrations of a start-up with none of the perks - Business Development Executive Darktrace Employee Review

2.0
Aug 5, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good salary, great medical benefits, decent commission, 401K matching up to 1%, okay coworkers. I've heard word of decent promotion opportunities.

Cons

This company is incredibly disorganized. The database management system they force you to use is horrendous to work with and the lead list hasn't been cleaned up in over 3 years. You will spend more time looking for misspelled duplicates of your leads than actually calling them. The training is dismal; they sell you the illusion of autonomy (that you won't get) and pitch it as a job for "go-getters" to justify their laughably incomplete training. These are frustrations you would expect from a start-up, but they're supposed to be compensated for by the perks that are also expected from a start-up. There's no equity or stock options offered, lunch is only covered on Fridays (and it's subpar food with no options), there are no employee outings, you're expected to work until 5:30 on Friday, etc. Again, these are things I associate with the trade-off of working for start-ups. Disorganization for perks. No wonder the turnover is so high there.

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Cons

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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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