Toxic work environment and terrible management - Account Executive Darktrace Employee Review

1.0
Jan 19, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Before COVID the travel perks and friendships with coworkers were great and made the job bearable.

Cons

Management does not care about employees at all and it shows. You'll also find that many individuals in upper management are severely unqualified to be in that type of position. They do not know how to manage a team properly and genuinely show no respect for their own team members. Management is only focused on themselves and making sure they look good; therefore, will quickly throw others under the bus or even fire them to make their numbers look better. Employees come to work everyday scared they might be fired for absolutely no reason and without warning. They create an unhealthy work environment by using the scare tactic to try and motivate employees. I can't express enough how absolutely terrible management there is and how they treat their employees so horribly that most people can't stand to be there for more than a few months. Managers here do not have your back and will never support you or be able to provide any useful guidance.

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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
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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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