Might as well be called "PIPs Ahoy" - Account Executive Darktrace Employee Review

2.0
Sep 14, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Many of the employees are very cool, intelligent, and passionate people. Even from a remote setting, it's very easy to befriend coworkers. Occasionally the company will fly everyone or specific teams to different parts of the country to conference and/or celebrate together. This is also a great place to start a career in cybersecurity and learn the industry. The product is great and unique on the market. Benefits are solid, completely paid for by the company.

Cons

Seems like leadership takes a 'hire then fire' approach and brings on many sales reps at a time, then fires half of them 6-12 months later. If you have a few bad months, expect a PIP then an exit. There's also a lot of persistent operational barriers to being successful (terrible in-house CRM, reps hoarding accounts) that make this job way more frustrating than it needs to be. It's almost a requirement to work 2-4 extra hours each day if you want to hit targets, and very few reps are even coming close to the marketed OTE. Also it's worth mentioning they've made major cutbacks on company events, meaning culture is declining fast.

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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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