Micromanagers, Babysitting, and Cold Calling - Account Executive Darktrace Employee Review

1.0
Dec 1, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Interesting product and seems like EU office employees are somewhat happy

Cons

- Calls once sometimes twice a day with managers to review how your meetings went for the day and if you booked any meetings "babysitting extremes" - Felt like AEs are measured by # calls, # emails per day solely - Horrible training and absolutely no resources to learn/minimal shadow opportunities - Toxic environment where you are put on the spot in front of peers to discuss your performance and pipeline with management - Unrealistic quota - Favorites game - Zero inbound leads--- as an account executive you will be cold calling 100 percent of your prospects to generate opportunities. Yes there is an SDR team, but the leads they bring forward are good about 10 percent of the time - Worst CRM I've ever seen. Homegrown, Terrible task management, no clarity on stages, managing accounts/opportunites/contacts in excel worksheets - No office culture or team building exercises - Very limited opportunity to travel for work *if anything Overall it was hard to get my work mentality back to the right place after leaving Darktrace. I was lured in by a recruiter promising 120k+ first year salary and its the worst decision I've made for my career as a young professional

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5.0
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Pros

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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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