Pros
Interesting insights into the open-source world, their engineers are brilliant
Cons
• When you think of a true revenue-generation, customer acquisition sales job, there are better places to look than here. Especially if you have a good track record of success.
• The pay in my opinion was a bit below average given the experience required & how early stage the company is.
• Being told to use company approved messaging only.
• Spending more time interfacing with “management” (management, not leadership - parroting a mid-sized company’s playbook to me) than prospective clients, for the sake of “visibility” (I was also told that this was necessary because sending a link to CRM notes & contact info isn’t enough).
• It was explicitly outlined to me to limit my interactions to a defined set of accounts, individuals, and working hours in one specific time zone (just a name a few sales restrictions) which needless to say, will absolutely ruin sales anywhere, much less at such an early stage startup.
• For reference, I have done a sales role in another early-stage company and gotten over 10x the revenue and customer acquisition having been there for maybe a quarter of the time, than was ever possible in the same role at Diagrid; because at its core the job I had here, in my view, was not sales. It was more or less just finding contact information to send canned messaging to already-identified individuals, reporting back to someone in management about if each person did or didn’t respond, definitely checking off boxes more than creating a path forward.