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ISO Client Facing Software Sales Role

Title kinda says it all. Have been working for VARs the last 3+ years in inside sales roles. First company my role was software focused and I excelled. I was given the opportunity to really influence and craft solutions for my clients and account map potential larger opportunities with my account ex

Jul 26, 2022

Let’s hear some rags to riches stories.

Hey everyone. I’m kind of in a rut right now in life financially and I just wanna hear some of you guys rags to riches stories for anyone making a TC that’s over 6 figures or $200k+.I used to work as a store manager for Sprint about two years ago and had a TC of around $80-90K but unfortunately I lo

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Apr 13, 2021

I am stuck in EDA!!! Need advise!

total Yoe 5 TC 143K (yes it is shitty I know..no RSU) role FAE(total 5 yr) Working as FAE after graduate, mainly focus on digital implementation, constantly work ~60 hrs/week for my customers as the product line I support is in hot seat now. Totally burned out but don't see any growth now, I am thi

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Sep 17, 2020

Enterprise Biotech —&gt Enterprise SaaS/Big Tech???

Been in Life Sciences selling to Big Biotech R&D and Biopharmaceutical Manufacturing (cell and gene therapy, advanced therapies, etc) for 5.5 years. My experience has always been capital technologies, big ticket items with reoccurring revenue (consumables, service, validation). Rn selling disruptiv

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Jan 22, 2022

Pivoting to Tech Sales - Is a Bootcamp or Course needed?

Hi, Im looking to switch over to either a Tech Sales or Manual QA job . I have over 15 YOE in the Transportation/Logistics industry. Part of the work consists of Account Management and a lot of selling. You are either selling freight or Transportation. You also have to pay a lot of attention to de

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Apr 10, 2022

Remote Jobs: List of Remote and Hybrid Companies for Sales Jobs

As you likely know already, return-to-office policies can vary based on your job, department or location. We surveyed sales professionals in Blind’s community of over 9 million verified professionals to find out companies’ policies and in-office or hybrid work schedules. As a reminder, Blind’s re

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Sep 25, 2023

Bad/no sales process

I’ve worked in sales for over a decade at a variety of companies. First b2c, then B2B, now enterprise SaaS B2B. For my current position I took a slight pay cut and lower title for the chance to get into Enterprise SaaS. Unfortunately, the company I’m with seems completely unwilling to invest in a lo

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Sep 9, 2022

SDR at Grafana

Just thought to post my experience as an SDR at Grafana EMEA. I have been with Grafana for a while and the SDR salary in EMEA is a basic non-negotiable package. During the initial negotiation I asked for more, and they agreed with my ask after 4 rounds of interviews, I was given an offer with a low

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Sep 15, 2022

Government employee to SaaS sales career change?

Hello all, 33/M TC: $107k/yr in DC metro area Highest educational level completed: Bachelors Federal government admin employee here. I've hit my ceiling. Not to sound cruel and judgmental, but the promotions don't make up for the lack of fulfillment, the monotony, and the quiet desperation of thos

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Mar 7, 2022

🌏 Exploring RTL Design/Verification Opportunities Abroad - Seeking Insights and Guidance 🌍

Hello fellow blinders, I hope you're all doing well. I am currently working as an RTL Design Engineer in Siemens EDA(Mentor Graphics) India with around 4 years of experience in the VLSI industry. Lately, I've been contemplating the possibility of shifting my career to the United States or Europe wi

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Sep 10, 2023

Verizon Connect BDR Interview process

I have interviewed with Verizon Connect twice in the past two years and each time it is absolutely the worst experience ever. I should’ve taken it as a red flag when even the recruiter told me she was leaving the company and I would get another recruiter along the way. The first time I interviewed

Oct 21, 2021

Start up questions for sales

Hey sales people, I have a offer for a sales position at a hot startup, in one of the hottest tech areas right now. VCs are throwing money at the area. This would be my first startup and I'm really interested in the equity aspect. I've read quite a bit on how it works and wanted to ask a few questi

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Dec 28, 2021

GCP FSR Role? They went cold?

Hi Team Blind. This post is meant to serve as a bit of a rant / covid-layoff situation. I was laid off Q2 2020 due to COVID from a Kubernetes Platform Vendor (they thought of themselves as a direct competitor to RedHat OpenShift / Rancher in their Kubernetes product offerings. I have solid experie

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Jan 25, 2021

Sales Engineer - Hardware to Software?

Hi all, After over a year of thought, I’m set on changing careers from hardware SE to software SE. I’d love any help, referrals, job recs, or general advice the Blind community may be able to give! Tl;dr - I’d like to work as a Sales/Solutions Engineer, but in software rather than hardware. I’ve g

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Oct 26, 2022

No longer in Focus at Amazon, want to make a change.

Update 1: First off thank you to everyone who has commented so far. There is a ton of information shared and I'd encourage anyone who is going through a similar experience to read through every note below - whether you like what you read or not. There are several comments making some assumptions abo

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Apr 11, 2021

How to have more impact at Meta (Facebook)

As I promised in a recent thread, I will write up my experience at FB and my view on impact. A little bit from myself. I was a SWE at FB, joined at E5, no competing offer, first job in big techs. I was unemployed when a FB recruiter reached out to me. I was shutting down my startup. My initial offe

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Jul 5, 2022

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