I recently changed careers into presales consulting at a SaaS company (not oracle) and love it so far. I’m curious though, when it’s time to leave how is onboarding for this role with a new company/product? My company spends months training us on product. For anyone who has switched, has your new company made sure you have enough time to get comfortable with product? Especially curious if anyone has done this at FAANG. For those wondering about the role, I’m talking product demo, scoping, value selling, and solutioning prior to closing a sale. TC: 100k YOE: 2 #presales #salesengineer #customerengineer
My company took us through an onboarding program at first then gave slowly got us into demoing. Before that we would do test demos with team members first to make sure we knew what we were talking about
Glad to hear. Training at current company is almost 6 months. A lot of that is teaching presales fundamentals, but would hope that to get at least a few months of product training if I ever join a new company
I'm sure you would. Do you mind letting me know what company it is you're going to? Is the comp much better? I always like to keep my ears open for new opportunities
Not at FAANG but yes, they do make sure that you get comfortable. Tons of structured training and hands-on time with the product before they put you in front of a customer. I really hope you’re not in the Bay Area or NYC with that TC. I talked to a lot of companies before accepting the role at MongoDB (I wasn’t interested in FAANG because I wanted to go somewhere smaller) and there was a huge range in pay (from $80k OTE at a startup to more than double that at Mongo). Also make sure you find a place that offers RSU’s or equity. It’s not as common as you think in sales roles
Thanks for the info! I’m not in the Bay Area and am on pace for a healthy raise halfway thru year 1. Really helpful to get perspective on presales TC elsewhere as well.
From what I’ve seen here SaaS places pay waaay less than cloud/ security/ data places