Ups and downs - Account Executive Darktrace Employee Review

2.0
May 10, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Base pay is solid. Product is cool and transformative. Running the entire sales cycle sheds light on real-world business problems and exposure to C-Level/Executive interaction and problem solving.

Cons

Product is niche and not priced properly in the market (At least for SMB); Consistently lose business to security vendors that cover one part of the digital estate and are cheaper. Constant surveillance of your day to day work, as management can listen in on your calls along with other metrics to be held against you. Enormous marketing budget sucks up any contest/SPIF opportunities. While turnover is commonplace in tech sales, 90% of my new hire class had left within 9 months of me starting.

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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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