What's up savages,
I am job hunting right now and saw that one of my previous managers and VP switched to a different company.
I am planning on reaching out to them as I noticed they posted they have open roles at the new company.
When I joined the company I was working my ass off and was motivated AF fucking crushing my quota and all that cool shit, but...
... Here is the difficult part, I found out about compensation.
At the time, I was making 60k Base; 15k Commission. There were two more on my same comp plan while others were 65k-20k, 65k-25k, and the highest one was 70k-30k.
I was disappointed and mad and led through ups and downs in my performance. Months I would be like "Fuck it, I'm gonna grind it out and become an AE, then I'll bounce." Other months I was like "Fuck this company and fuck this shit."
Now, I wanna reach out about their open roles but feel weird about reaching out because of my inconsistent performance.
First 6 months I was 1st or 2nd place, then ups and downs started (Never was at the bottom but was in the middle often), and last 2-3 months were shitty, middle but trending towards the bottom, last month I picked it up because I wanted to leave a good last impression, but not sure it was enough.
My question is regarding how to address my performance during my last few months there, I don't know if I should tell them the truth or just come up with a different BS story.
Maybe I am overthinking it and they won't even ask about that, I'm sure they don't remember specific numbers as they had other SDRs to manage but I feel that they will remember that my performance became inconsistent during the last few months that I was there. I was there for 15 months in total.
How would you approach this?
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