Hi. I am coming from sales and have an offer from Google as a Sales Rep as well as very soon an offer from a brick and mortar retailer with 30000 Employees as CTO, with the plan to be on the exec board after a year. Vision to drive cloud transformation and building a digital platform / advanced Ecommerce and moving to devops. TC both around 300k. Thoughts? Strong tendency towards CTO role for learning and career, albeit much more risk.
I don’t get it. These are two totally different functional roles and levels. Sales rep vs CTO of 30k person company? Somethings not adding up.
Kind of makes sense though. Been helping companies a lot with digital transformation (hate that phrase) and was exposed to their organization quite a bit.
Ya CTO pay should be 5x
Is the CTO title really a sales position in disguise? Lots of companies do that sort of thing because important customers want to talk to reps with fancy titles. If so, Google. If not, decide based on whether you want to do sales or be a CTO since they’re totally different roles.
No, it's a real CTO role.
CTO no doubt, comp is low for level, but there will be a lot of upside from being in the board. You’ll get into a exclusive club of c suite of large firms
Can you elaborate more on how these sales engineering positions work? What does one end up doing for google as an example.
Do CTO gig. Google job will always be there. I wanna say offer is valid for 1 year as well.
Any offer? That would be amazing and solve my timing issue, because we're still working in the cto contract, which obviously takes more time.
Ask the recruiter. However if it's cloud sales, we are hiring & growing like mad and there's always been open headcount in cloud sales at all offices for last 3 years.
So you came from sales but a dumbass company hired you to be cto?
Not uncommon. Smart move honestly. Who best to work with the vendor sales teams than a former salesperson.
Why you turn down C-level? At the very least you are then looked at for other CTO/CIO roles in the future. Anyone can be a sales rep. Unless the company is evil I can't see not taking a CTO role.
The other choice is def evil
Like Phillip Morris level evil? Or health insurance company denying claims level evil? 😈
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