Some notable things:
a. Go. Fly out and plant yourself inside the customer's operation. Weekdays are onsite (Wisconsin, New York, Miami, Los Angeles); weekends we regroup at the SF HQ to debrief and keep building.
Sounds like a 7 day work week to me.
b. Absolute grinder. Interested in co-living (though not required). Comfortable with ambiguity and rapid change.
You're expected to work 7 days a week and completely blur the line between personal and professional life by "co-living"? What kind of person wrote this?
(1 month ago) https://www.linkedin.com/posts/salespatriot_forward-deployed...
> Forward Deployed Engineers in the wild. We said "go relax." They brought their laptops onto a duck float. Because when you're helping customers manage supplier communications semi-autonomously and speed up America's defense industrial base, "break" is a relative term. This is the energy.
(I don’t make a habit of checking that site but happy to make an exception to answer this post’s ‘did I interpret correctly?’.)
What a thing to obsessively devote your life to.
It’s wild out there.
This is a glorified consultancy, and there's a reason why consultancies don't work like this.
I’ve never worked anywhere or been interviewed at a place that asked this absurd schedule of their employees.
https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/salespatriot/jobs/M46X...
https://filthydreams.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/View-Job...
What’s the equity and salary for completely dedicating your entire life to this company? Why not just hire two or three normal 40-hour employees?
Catholics like me would refer to that arrangement as “a religious vocation”. So it would come with room & board, wraparound health care, community living, celibacy, hard labor and/or lofty intellectual pursuits.
It’s interesting how the secular world continually tries to recapitulate these phenomena.
Their name is Sales Patriot, hiring a "FDE", and they are funded by YC.
That should be enough information by itself.
Anyway, most of the work is going to be done out of state...
A standard 200k full-time job clocks in at around $96 / hour. This job is more like $64 / hour.
Not quite sure how they get "teams of 20" living in those houses with a total company size of 15, though.
However, there’s a scenario worth considering. If you believe that early career people are most at risk of being replaced by AI, then doing a job like this for even a single year is a very compressed way to get several years of experience in a short time. Multiple different customer situations (different industries, tech stacks, cultures), and living in the cult HQ also means you absorb a lot of the experiences of your colleagues through osmosis.
After this when you’re looking to go work for a real company, you’re in a much stronger position in a tight employment market when you can point to 10 actual projects you’ve done with lots of variety.
And if you claim to have done 10 projects in your first year of paid employment, people will just assume that they were all very shallow or that you only had minor involvement.
Pretty much any other job would be better.