Tech IndustrySep 10, 2020

Google Customer Engineer - Quota Attainment

Hi all, Evaluating an offer from Google vs staying at my current role. Google TC for Customer / Sales engineers has 42% of OTE coming from bonus/commission. My obvious question is how often does the CE team hit their number? Having such a large portion of OTE coming from bonus/commission, one needs to consider the much higher tax rate for that category @ 45-50%. Would appreciate any insight into how often GCP teams are hitting their number / making quota. Thanks #google #gcp #customerengineer

Qualcomm brntbtry Sep 10, 2020

What sort of bonus has a different tax rate? Normally bonus is just taxed as ordinary income.

RingCentral gORr77 OP Sep 10, 2020

You are right, it's the withholding that is typically higher than a standard paycheck. That would be rectified at year end during tax season. That said, I'm still curious to know how common it is for the sales teams to make their number. Reason I ask is because I've been burned before by organizations that never hit the number due to circumstances outside an individuals control such as unrealistic quotas.

Google Django9 Sep 13, 2020

Quotas seem quite fair here. If you make it then accelerators are really good and if you don’t, you should be 80-90% of goal since it’s a team goal.

Cisco MB112 Sep 13, 2020

What are the accelerators? 200%?

Google Django9 Sep 13, 2020

Can go as high as 3-6x depends on the quota your district was carrying. Higher the quota, higher the accelerator for over achieving.

Amazon twofinger Sep 18, 2020

tc yoe?

RingCentral gORr77 OP Sep 18, 2020

Annual tc 275k, L4 base 140, bonus 43%, 300k equity, 25k sign on,

Amazon twofinger Sep 19, 2020

nice! are stocks 25/25/25/25 still?

ClearDATA AzMt25 Sep 18, 2020

Can you share your offer?

RingCentral gORr77 OP Sep 18, 2020

Posted above

Microsoft asrfr Sep 27, 2020

@OP is it ok to DM you to know more about interview process ??

RingCentral DsKhcW Sep 27, 2020

Go for it

Microsoft asrfr Sep 27, 2020

Just sent it ...thanks

Dell inale Sep 28, 2020

Op, what location is this and yoe?

RingCentral DsKhcW Sep 28, 2020

SF, 7 yoe

Dell inale Sep 28, 2020

Thanks!!

T-Mobile QOlJ22 Apr 25, 2021

@OP, what was the final offer? When do you get the refresher? Thanks