Personal references have been light and far between lately on here but I thought its time I should give more of myself… I mean this is a personal journal that only I ever read right? So basically my job sucks. I came out to New York on expectations of another position and was rather fortunate to land a sweet job (so I thought) at a very large enterprise sales organization. I’m thinking structured training, large resources, marketing backing and all I have to do is develop the deals… Not so… quite the opposite and on top of that there was the micro-management. I would have to say my Regional Director is one of the sharpest sales managers I’ve ever worked for (he hired me didn’t he) but the team support left much to be desired.
So I’ve been reviewing other options and one I picked up on was Google. I’ve already had a few conversations with people that work there and the HR/internal recruiter there. This is no walk in the park to get a job here and those that get there, don’t leave unless they are pushed out. Google has a new enterprise search product and to me, it looks to be a rather easy technology to understand and sell – the only problem is I’d have to go through about 10 interviews to get to the hiring stages…
To make matters difficult, every interviewer is looking for an engineer that does sales. It’s obvious to me that the majority of the people in this area of the company are technical geeks and most have never heard of solution selling techniques. It’s quite unfortunate because I don’t think I’ll get the opportunity to work for in this environment:
