Decent - Business Development Executive Darktrace Employee Review

3.0
Feb 25, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The base is constant at 55k or it has been in my 2 years of being here. Commish changes every 6 months but usually the pay per meeting rate is pretty darn good. The WFH is nice and they are really understanding if you need to miss some office days if you work from home. The product is good and decently well known in the space. Fellow SDRs are open and kind. If you figure out how to hit your numbers, the job is a breeze and you will not be under a microscope. Benefits come at no cost (insurance).

Cons

In house built CRM is horrific and no joke the main cause of almost every single issue in the sales and marketing department. The CRM is so bad, most sales leadership does not how to use it, so they are clueless on what the actual problems are. Micromanagement has been increasing drastically since DT was acquired on all sales roles from AEs to SDRs. Most of SDR leadership never had an SDR role outside of DT. The training here is not good, you are basically thrown in the ocean and expected to swim. If you cannot figure out how to book meetings with the garbage CRM, you better have high dials, if not, expect to for leadership to come for you. Legit the CRM is the main issue for everyone but leadership is not great either.

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5.0
Jun 24, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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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
CEO approval
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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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