Do not work here if you care about your well being. - Account Executive Darktrace Employee Review

1.0
28 May 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Can be easy to make friends if your sociable as they try to hire people with similar interests - Interview process is quick and straight forward so it’s relatively simple to land a job (unless your GPA is under 3.5, even if you’ve been out of school for 5 years) - You’re given a lot of responsibility and autonomy, particularly as a fresh grad - Really cool technology that only seems to be getting more advanced

Cons

- IT TAKES A FULL 12 – 16 MONTHS TO GET PAID OUT ON YOUR COMMISSION. Commission structure is absurd (some have even called it criminal). Some employees leave before they receive 100% of their commission so it’s a way for the company to keep more money in their pockets - C-Suite each made millions from the IPO yet give their employees no stake in the company and pay them laughable base salaries (especially for enterprise sales in US). By accepting a job here, you're working tirelessly to make the rich, richer - No care for employee well-being. Churn and burn culture. Very few people make it to the two-year mark. - Middle management has no leadership training or skills, leaving them clearly overwhelmed - No sales enablement tools - Proprietary CRM is really bad and crashes many times a day - Often put in positions where prospective customers feel pressured to sign agreements on a monthly basis - Employees must report to multiple stake holders (team lead, director, VP, sales opps) on the same thing, which is incredibly inefficient for everyone involved - No infrastructure in place to make remote work successful as it relates to team bonding, morale, fun, etc. - Tech recourses and Directors are very over worked, underpaid, and under appreciated, yet so critical to closing business - Lots of fake 5 star reviews - You are not the exception and neither is your office (geography does not matter, it's as bad as these reviews say company wide) – please stick out your job hunt and find an organization that will value you

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Pros

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Cons

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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