Recorded Future Reviews

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.

I have never encountered a company where internal processes seem to hinder progress as much as they do here. There appears to be a lack of accountability across departments, and many processes feel as if they were set up to fail from the beginning. Unfortunately, the product is no longer leading the market, and many of the most talented employees are choosing to leave. Meanwhile, leadership seems focused more on meeting retention goals tied to the acquisition, rather than addressing the underlying issues. Unless significant changes are made, it’s difficult to see a promising future for this company.