Its what you make it - Sales Darktrace Employee Review

4.0
Sep 23, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The only cyber company that will hire you with 1-2 yrs sales experience. You'll go far if you show up every day and work without complaining. Company is ever-changing. 10 years from nothing to multi-billion valuation. Of course there are growing pains. This has been a direct sales model for 10 years so we've had to throw heads at the problem without the proper distribution in the channel like more mature cyber/IT companies. People complaining about the lack of experience across the board have never worked at a high-growth startup. We're just starting to mature now. New C levels, more focus on the channel. In the medium term there will be less and less salespeople here as we build distribution elsewhere. If you have the opportunity to sell here, use it to springboard your career. No it won't be easy, but you won't find an easy sales job in your mid-twenties in any industry worth being in. The CRM isn't that bad, its just easy to complain about. You get used to it. All of the terrible reviews you see here will likely be obsolete in the next couple of years. The structure of everything is changing. One thing that remains constant - the technology itself. It's superb.

Cons

Work at enough orgs you realize they're all messy and far from perfect. Darktrace included. But this is just reality, especially in a hyper-growth industry. Sometimes speed is the most important thing. Long term, things will stabilize internally at DT and it will become a blue-chip cyber company.

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5.0
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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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