What are monkeys thoughts on leaving IB for software sales at a Microsoft / Amazon / Salesforce?
Continue to work with high profile companies, make a good salary and bonus, and don’t work 100 hr weeks.
Top performers can out earn IB on a regular basis. And there’s flexibility in location and lower cost cities.
Thoughts?
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Would you be able to join as an account executive or would you have to start at the bottom as a BDR? I think it would be hard to be ok going from a second-year associate to making $100k as a bdr.
Depends - are you ok with the mind numbing work that is enterprise sales? (Cold calls, linkedin social outreach, conferences)?
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