Hey guys, I need your career advice regarding a tough career decision.
After working as an SDR during my studies, I finally graduated a couple of months ago and joined a relatively big company in the finance space. The pay is excellent as they offered me a 100k base salary and another 100k as a commission due to my experience of having worked as an SDR part-time while still exceeding my targets.
The problem is the following: The new company has been recently sold by the founder and is now in the hands of a new investor, but we still have a lot of people who are not suited for the new environment. I say this because they have never had to aggressively compete in the market and get leads by themselves. With the economy and market situation changing, AEs are completely lost and try to generate leads with shitty spammy emails etc. I tried to implement many new approaches, but as you know, it takes time to implement them and get approval from above.
In the meantime, I got an offer from a smaller startup with a 10$ million dollar funding for an AE position with a base salary of 70k and a commission of 40k. Now I am asking myself whether I should leave the company and take the offer or stay put.
What would you recommend?
My pro and cons:
Big company:
+ Salary
+ Career path => hiring like crazy, and AE get 200 - 500k here
+ Safe job
- Rigid structure
- The lead situation is awful
- Need to wait a long time for a change (maybe a year or longer)
Startup:
+ AE title and responsibilities
+ Completely remote or hybrid
+ Growing market and great lead situation
- Salary drastically lower
- Track record is limited (have been around 2 years)
- Experience wise, also rather young "inexperienced" crowd
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