Dont do this to yourself - Account Executive Darktrace Employee Review

2.0
Jul 9, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Awesome coworkers, pre pandemic the travel was fun, and the technology is great. Perform well and there are promotional paths, ability to get into sales management much faster than most organizations.

Cons

Too many reps in each territory with no named accounts, so a mad scramble to grab companies to prospect. Micromanagement to the extreme (no joke, 5 webex meetings a day at the start of covid just to babysit us) No sales enablement tools, all home built systems. You will miss Salesforce. Unfair commission structure with half withheld for a year, most reps make less than 30K commission yearly unless you get really lucky. So bad that people quit during the pandemic without another role.

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5.0
Jun 24, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

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
Business Outlook

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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