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To put things into context, I am working as a sales engineer for a NASDAQ listed company in Asia. The company has been around for the longest time and they have a legacy product that has been their consistent source of income (renewals/maintenance). So for the past decade, they have been buying companies left and right. I have been here for 10-11 months so far and it took me while to understand the products, the people within the company, how to presell the products, the competitions, etc. I am reporting to the sales guy who is also my boss. My work life balance is really good now as a sales engineer since I am only supporting 1 sales guy (my boss). However, I am also required to help out other regions as well if need be. If I am being honest, I probably work about 30 hours per week max. We sell a number of products but I happen to like selling a mar tech software that is selling very well my region. My only dislike about the company in terms of product strategy is that they are trying to sell a piece of technology where the competition is Amazon, Google, Microsoft, etc. We aren't making a lot of sales for that product but yet it is featured in Gartner's. In terms of people, my boss treats everyone nicely when you meet him face to face. However, he also likes to talk shit behind everyone's back. This is his main character flaw. Other than that, he is a very good sales person. This year however, we haven't been meeting our numbers. We are at around 80% of our numbers. So my commission is less than what I would be getting otherwise had we met the number. This is one of the factors which makes me think that maybe I should look out for a company with products that are in demand.
My friend out of a sudden called me for a job opening in his current company. I was not looking around for a job actually. It is a devops company (think of chef, puppet, ansible, terraform, etc). Hence, if I take this job, I will have some sort of branding due to the company's reputation. I attended couple of interview rounds with them. However, in the end, they chose another candidate instead of me. I was their 2nd choice. So I thought that's about it. One month later, they called me up and offering me a job. They told me that there's another opening for this role. They asked me for my expected salary. I quoted 33% hike of the current salary since I wasn't so keen anymore. I was hoping that they would just go away and tell me that they couldn't afford me. However, I was wrong. They came back and offered me the job with the expected salary. Basically, my OTE was 150k (80% base, 20% comms). They offered me 200k OTE (70% base and 30% comms). The increment is not much from the base salary point of view. However, the commissions part is bigger. Also, the fact that they have been overachieving for the past few years (exceeding their target numbers), really lures me into joining them. My friend told me that the workload was high since they didnt have good ratio of sales engineers v.s. sales people. However, now things have changed that they have added one headcount more for sales engineer. I only worry if I join, I don't know whether I will have free time to actually do side hustles. Typically, when I join a new company, I need to acclimatize with the new working environment for at least 6 months (i.e. the usuals: learning the products, how to work within the company, knowing the people, market, etc). On one hand I like to be where I am now apart from few negatives, but on the other hand, if I don't take this opportunity, I am afraid I will miss the opportunity making around 50-100k more per annum.
My friend out of a sudden called me for a job opening in his current company. I was not looking around for a job actually. It is a devops company (think of chef, puppet, ansible, terraform, etc). Hence, if I take this job, I will have some sort of branding due to the company's reputation. I attended couple of interview rounds with them. However, in the end, they chose another candidate instead of me. I was their 2nd choice. So I thought that's about it. One month later, they called me up and offering me a job. They told me that there's another opening for this role. They asked me for my expected salary. I quoted 33% hike of the current salary since I wasn't so keen anymore. I was hoping that they would just go away and tell me that they couldn't afford me. However, I was wrong. They came back and offered me the job with the expected salary. Basically, my OTE was 150k (80% base, 20% comms). They offered me 200k OTE (70% base and 30% comms). The increment is not much from the base salary point of view. However, the commissions part is bigger. Also, the fact that they have been overachieving for the past few years (exceeding their target numbers), really lures me into joining them. My friend told me that the workload was high since they didnt have good ratio of sales engineers v.s. sales people. However, now things have changed that they have added one headcount more for sales engineer. I only worry if I join, I don't know whether I will have free time to actually do side hustles. Typically, when I join a new company, I need to acclimatize with the new working environment for at least 6 months (i.e. the usuals: learning the products, how to work within the company, knowing the people, market, etc). On one hand I like to be where I am now apart from few negatives, but on the other hand, if I don't take this opportunity, I am afraid I will miss the opportunity making around 50-100k more per annum.
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