Darktrace Software Engineer reviews

3.0

39% would recommend to a friend

(34 total reviews)
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Jill Popelka

43% approve of CEO

63% positive business outlook

Software Engineer employees have rated Darktrace with 3.0 out of 5 stars, based on 34 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Engineer professionals have an average working experience there. Darktrace is rated 22% below average by Software Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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34 reviews
2.0
5 Feb 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Relaxed atmosphere in general around company

Cons

Poor pay, leadership inexperienced and not as knowledgeable as they think

3.0
3 Feb 2026

Holy technical debt

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great people Decent benefits Good for juniors At it's core the product is truly innovative

Cons

Developers treated as second class citizens Products are rushed out the door at the detriment of quality Technical debt up to the eyeballs Product full of bugs Sink or swim culture

2.0
6 Dec 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Only 2 days required in office, managers happy to be flexible beyond this as needed - Great dev team: there are some truly excellent developers here who are willing to provide help and coaching if you ask - Lots of flexibility to work on what you want within the scope of your product - Variety of languages used - Generally good opportunities for learning - Encourages a very independent workflow - No push to embrace LLM-centric development - Get-it-done culture with a strong connection between Dev and DevOps

Cons

- Very uncompetitive compensation. No bonuses below L5. Minimum pension contribution. No stock options - PE acquisition has rapidly led to many nice-to-have/day-to-day benefits being rolled back with less social budget etc. Yet there is somehow a huge budget for major internal sales and marketing events. - Recent "improvements" to career growth seem entirely superficial - management seem unwilling to provide appropriate role and pay improvements. - Complete lack of transparency from a high level: while there has been an uptick in communications, again seems mostly superficial as a lot of the actually useful information (pay bands/structure) are still hidden - Dev team spread far too thin. Made worse as there seems to be a constant drain of good, well-respected developers. - Countless internal tech issues with regular VPN/connectivity/internal service issues with developers just expected to work around the whole time. Constant deprecation of well-tested and beloved internal solutions in favour of shoddy and unfit-for-purpose setup of industry standard tooling - Independent workflow can cause a complete lack of direction, or cause similar features to be developed separately with wasted effort

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