Talented devs hindered by lack of direction and visibility - Engineering Lead Darktrace Employee Review

2.0
Jun 14, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Some of the dev team are legitimately talented.

Cons

Complete lack of direction. Seems to change every quarter. No real career progression, the only way up is to be in the club. Technical culture is very sheltered on a need to know basis. Other engineers will talk about projects you had no idea existed because you have no visibility outside of your team. Despite being an “AI first” company, very slow to adopt any AI tooling across the entire org. A sales company that pretends to be a tech company. Genuinely a massive cult if you’re not in tech. Benefits and pay genuinely lack compared to peers.

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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
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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