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Wait until you see how much the sales people rake in.
by err0ne 8y ago
Wait until you see how much the sales people rake in.
- meritt 8y agoOr get the best of both worlds: Work at a company where engineers receive direct profit sharing for their contributions.
- henryfjordan 8y agoI'm having a hard time picturing this as anything but standard stock/option grants negotiated per employee. How do you correlate a particular individual's contributions to profit in software? And even if you could really understand how much value everyone was contributing, how would you ever keep a cooperative atmosphere? If me sharing a good idea with you potentially costs me money, I'm suddenly going to stop talking in meetings.
- meritt 8y agoMy company takes precisely this approach, though our business model (we sell data products) and size (we're quite small) definitely makes it easier. There are usually 1-2 employees (engineer and analyst) responsible for a given product so calculating their respective contribution and profit-sharing on a per-product basis is quite straightforward.
- instaheat 8y agoWhere? I have been doing inside sales for 3 years. Looking to move.
- sjg007 8y agoMove to outside sales. Or sales engineering.
- lozaning 8y agoEnterprise hardware sales is incredibly lucrative, and even more cutthroat. The closer you are to the actual customer the more money you'll make. The sales guy at the VAR who actually knows the customer makes the most, followed by the sales guy at the manufacturer, then any SE's, then maybe inside guys.
- instaheat 8y agoI'm very close to the customer, but am slanging Mortgages. Obviously I am on Hacker News so I'm really a tech guy, know my way around a Linux box. Got into this field for the money, want out desperately. I get so tired of haggling over interest rates.
- sgustard 8y agoExactly. The highest paid tech workers are certainly in sales, from an outlier perspective, when you include commissions on those million-dollar deals. The fact that the text "sale" does not even appear in the article makes the whole analysis suspect.