Good stepping stone, Not a career destination - Sales Darktrace Employee Review

3.0
Dec 24, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great technology. Health care is amazing. Fully paid and top of the line coverage. Given opportunity to learn business and work deals early. If you can have tough skin here for at least 1-2 years, you can find great career opportunities at other companies with great culture that will pay you significantly more.

Cons

A leadership style that does not produce high morale culture. There is no training for leaders. If you are a high performer, you’re made a team lead or Director and are expected to make your team perform like you did. This never works and causes teams to burn out quickly. Most of the employees leaving 6-9months after onboarding are leaving because of inexperienced managers running them into the ground. No transparency, culture is very secretive. Not really an innovative company even though that’s the way they promote themselves. They do things like all the traditional companies “my way or the Highway” Doesn’t seem to be interested in developing their people. Seems unbothered by the fact that 50% of their new hires leave within six months of being hired.

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5.0
Jul 17, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Growth opportunity, growing team adding experience, strong marketing leadership Very interesting technology and industry

Cons

Constant changes in company structure and leadership leads to stagnant workflows

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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