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3.0
10 May 2025
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

It is a really great product with some super passionate people in some of the teams, especially in the product/tech teams. The move to including integrations in the package is a really good move and one that should of happened years ago, RF integrations are super strong but the previous price tag was completely unreasonable for the same data just plugged in via API key. I think great things will come from Mastercard and the sooner they can get control of the ship, the better. Work life balance is also fair, flexible in terms of remote/office etc. Nice office, good company benefits. Product managers are always eager to talk with customers and help out which makes a huge difference.

Cons

Communication is really bad, processes are constantly changing and it feels like it doesn't get fed down to the relevant teams properly which then causes friction. There seems to be a real lack of belief in the current GTM leadership. It also feels like everyone is treading on egg shells around them as they can act really unprofessional and patronising, not all them but a selected few. No one seems to know what the real goal/target is and the whole ICP/target account process has been a complete mess. It seems to be a one glove fits all, american centric approach with little understanding how markets in other regions of the world work. There also seems to be a lot of internal battling/competition which creates quite a toxic environment. Targets are super high, so is our pricing. Competition seems to be catching up and our customers are starting to take notice on this which is causing the churn number to rise substantially but it is the sales people who get the blame for this, no real ownership from leadership/strategy on where this trend has appeared from.

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5.0
27 Apr 2026
Anonymous contractor
Recommend
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Pros

Great environment, welcoming and friendly culture, lots of opportunities to grow, everyone wants to see others succeed

Cons

I can't think of any

2.0
25 May 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

-Good salary, but the benefits could improve, especially 401K.

Cons

Where to begin? Recorded Future has become an absolute mess of a workplace, particularly on the go-to-market side of the business. The sales team lost a huge percentage of its highest performing reps last year and constantly turns over management. Sales/marketing ops has lost so many people it almost doesn't exist at this point. Marketing has lost its best ICs and several key leaders. The GTM org is hobbling along, completely bereft of actual leadership, and with expectations so out of touch with reality, you'll start to wonder if anyone upstairs has ever led a revenue org before. Exec leadership is a mess. Several execs are needlessly, unproductively combative/unkind and provide their departments with little support. For some reason, RF is viewed by leadership less as a software company and more as an unofficial branch of the military/intelligence apparatus, with an unnecessary degree of unsmiling seriousness applied to everything. This culture of beating down employees has resulted in the departure of nearly every top performer that was holding most crumbling teams together, resulting in a pace of movement so glacial, you'd think you actually ARE working for the US government.

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