Rolling with The Punches - Enterprise Account Executive Darktrace Employee Review

1.0
Sep 1, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

The longer you last the more your resume becomes a hot commodity on LinkedIn

Cons

Entire organization restructured, and they changed the entire way the sales team operates. The veteran reps are scraping by while the junior reps are threatened daily and walk around scared of everyone. Everyone is scared of losing their job month to month. No joy. Nothing but vaping losers everywhere. 1 or 2 reps get fed all the inbounds and bring in 800% quota while 50 other reps are lucky to get 1 deal every 6-9 months. They only pay you half of 5% on TCV which now they just completely changed to ACV so will be a 3rd of total contract value. A third of all that gets taxed so you end up making a fraction of the total commission they try to promise you when you start. It's a 12 hour grind to maintain any type of healthy pipeline that if you even stop for more than 2 days you'll lose a grip of and feel underwater for the next month until your numbers reset again. All you are is a number until somehow you are handed a good lead from someone else.

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5.0
Jun 24, 2026
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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
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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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