Decent money but no development, insane staff turnover, toxic culture - Inside Sales Darktrace Employee Review

Terrible morale, staff turnover is completely insane. In any other company the head of department would be asked some major questions over their staff retention rate but there’s a cosy team of ex-Autonomy people at the top who have each other’s backs. The only people hitting targets are working non-UK markets. The UK is so saturated that people work unqualified accounts just to hit KPIs. You won’t get paid on a lot of the meetings you book & deals rarely close. If they do they tend to take so long it’s unlikely you’ll still be in the company to get your 0.5%. It happens but it’s rare. A lot of backstabbing as ISRs and reps are scrabbling over accounts. The money to be made is in foreign markets, which unless you are fluent in another language you might be given after a few months. No respect for prospects. It is encouraged to hound them relentlessly with cold calls, emails, LinkedIn until they either say yes or get angry. Extremely repetitive and boring. There is no challenge to the job at all, it’s just calling people and sending generic emails as quickly as you can and hoping people respond. Orwellian level of surveillance. They have software to monitor your level of activity on the CRM as well as call numbers, lunch times etc. Very mean annual leave allowance. You won’t be asked to take it for medical appointments as some on here have written, but it’s still the legal minimum. After 2 years service you get an additional 2 days and that’s it. Complete lack of career development opportunities. You can move sideways but there are no direct promotions in the department. Very rare that anyone from inside sales is offered an AE job. People have moved to finance or IT but most just leave to go to a company that treats its staff better & pays more.