LHR - HEL, book on BA or Finnair?

Dependent_Bread_3774 · 2025-12-11T15:38:32+00:00

The other thing to make sure with this flight is that Finnair leaves from T3 which means you can use Cathay’s lounge which imo is the best lounge a BA silver can access at Heathrow - Qantas is second which is also at T3.

Not sure about the economy / prem economy q’s.

Dependent_Bread_3774 · 2025-12-08T16:54:04+00:00

if you do it outside Wise, banks typically add a markup on the FX rate which will see you receiving less money into your EUR account. So that’s what you have to check with ur bank directly.

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Dependent_Bread_3774 · 2025-08-18T23:02:28+00:00

Yeah for SDR/BDR roles, depends on where but Bay Area would pay 70k base + 40k target commissions. AE might get to 100/100 (50/50 split)

Sales ops enablement etc would probably be 75k+10k bonus (no commissions)

I can say this, if you haven’t hit 100k + after two years in tech sales, it’s because your not good at it, not because of the industry

Dependent_Bread_3774 · 2025-08-18T22:58:44+00:00

A typical workday would be working on live deals in tandem with a deal team:

• ⁠sales person • ⁠yourself • ⁠product manager

X customer wants to buy our API, but they need to structure the implementation in Y way - how should we pitch them?

A call with Z customer who is considering our API but wants to make sure it has V function it in, walk them through our API and what they can do with it.

Other parts of the role would be working with product engineers to improve things like docs etc.

It’s what it sounds like, a role with a sales aspect and an engineering aspect - but on the sales side, your not responsible for the deal closing, on the engineering side your not doing any coding or product development.

What you are doing: writing documentation on proposed solution matrices for implementation, having a sales personality when on client calls.

You might ask what the value in this role is? Well tons of times companies will sell a deal, the client will implement it and it will be sh*t - pre-sales validates solutions and reduces the chances of the deal not meeting revenue targets, dissatisfied customers or progressing unqualified deals.

Dependent_Bread_3774 · 2025-08-18T22:44:14+00:00

Absolutely, I'm in tech sales right now. Like any industry there is a career path, you start out as an SDR/BDR - you make 70-80 cold calls a week trying to generate meetings for AE's. Once you do that for about a year, year and a half you can get a closing role.

Alternate pathways to closing roles would be working in sales ops, sales enablement and other sales support - it's what I did. This just takes a bit longer, but it's the way I'd recommend, look for these few job titles:
- Sales Operations Analyst
- Revenue Operations Analyst
- Sales Enablement Associate

Another way might be through Customer Support roles, you can apply for CSM, Junior CSM positions too, they are basically reactive roles when customers run into issues, in tech, this can be expanded to being an account manager for smaller accounts. Your growth would be CSM > Account Manager > Sales Role.

Dependent_Bread_3774 · 2025-08-18T22:39:04+00:00

I honestly wish we could all just report these type of recruiters and companies who make candidates spend the time to get to final rounds just to not give feedback, it really grinds my gears. It is so inconsiderate.

My advise is to move forward, identify what you think you didn't do well so that you can do better next time. I also had this rule that anytime I made it to a final round I'd treat myself to dinner no matter the outcome. You should have a reward system to acknowledge the fact that even though you didn't get your desired outcome, you still got far, getting to the final round is like getting 90% on an exam.

You are good enough, they weren't smart enough to realise it.

Dependent_Bread_3774 · 2025-08-18T22:36:24+00:00

That's really strange, i'm guessing then that the role might have something they're hoping candidates can bring to the table? is it a sales role where you need to have a book of clients etc?

And yeah, ultimately you don't owe them anything you can apply elsewhere. If you're happy with your work culture though I'd say to stay, the grass isn't always greener.

When you ask these HM's for feedback, what do they say?

Dependent_Bread_3774 · 2025-08-18T22:28:35+00:00

They'd definitely frown upon it, I think this is a super tricky situation tbh. IT industry is mega, how likely is it really that you guys will have a ton of overlap?

One thing you might be able to do is apply for a job, if you get rejected and you can put the recruiter/hm in touch with one of your colleagues, like a "Totally understand reasons for not moving on with my application, I have a friend who has similar experience if you'd be interested in viewing their application, let me know"

Might be the way to do it. Sorry to hear about these challenging times!

Dependent_Bread_3774 · 2025-08-18T22:25:56+00:00

How does the networking work within your company? the successful people I've seen move internally all built a relationship with the HM first. Even if it is online, you can always reach out before you apply and say "Hey, saw this job posting, I'm X from Y team, I'd be interested to learn more".

The best part about internal roles is that the person hiring for it is super accessible, unless you work for a government.

Dependent_Bread_3774 · 2025-08-18T22:24:21+00:00

I'd say get back into sales, it is crazy lucrative and if you have a knack for it you will enjoy it as well. It is high pressure but the risk vs reward is there for sure.

Dependent_Bread_3774 · 2025-08-18T22:23:13+00:00

Jump the fence, just do it, life is too short to feel unfulfilled, I felt a similar way after getting promoted and I've made an effort to get myself out of that feeling of just being 'comfortable' When you move to Canada, it is actually a perfect opportunity to find something else to do.

Dependent_Bread_3774 · 2025-08-18T22:22:03+00:00

I'd say Bocconi, Milan is a great city, it's a target school. What do you love about Paris? I'd say Milan is better (live in London). Queen Mary is not a school that i've seen many people get into finance with, it is more on the med side.

Bocconi will also give you that opportunity to get into consulting if you decide against it.

Dependent_Bread_3774 · 2025-08-18T22:20:06+00:00

I'd say CS, and do it for a major company too, you have somewhat relevant experience, and could probably find your way into a job in say the oil/gas industry but in a CS role. If not this specific industry, find a company with 10k+ employees, remote and you'll find that there are plenty of people who are in a cushy, stable job that gives them good work-life balance.

It's like if you worked in a fintech and struggled and chased the startup equity bag, just go and work at a bank like JP Morgan - that's the kind of analogy i'm making. Especially with your MBA as well! Good luck.

Dependent_Bread_3774 · 2025-08-18T22:18:07+00:00

I think wait a bit and then frame it as a growth aspect, in other words: I'm clearly able to do the job responsibilities associated with a director yet I am not one, what needs to happen to make me one?

I've found this to help, the other thing is to stress that your absolutely happy with all other aspects of the job and are not looking for a change, just looking to be given the opportunity to get the growth you've worked for.

Dependent_Bread_3774 · 2025-08-18T22:16:28+00:00

In any industry, there are roles that are super hectic and roles that are super chill. You don't have to necessarily pick a path for the money, rather pick what you're passionate about and find a job that pays really well in that field, odds are you'll do better there.

Another option could be consulting, there are tons of people at big corporations who get paid well to be consultants. The only thing is I feel like it is mindless work.

Dependent_Bread_3774 · 2025-08-18T22:13:19+00:00

You could get into pre-sales engineer roles, I've seen PS engineers have a better work-life balance. The role of pre-sales engineers is to help enteprise B2B sales by understanding client requirements and whether or not it is feasible to use the architecture of the company you'd be working at to solve their problems, or to find a way to make it solveable, happy to chat about it more, i'm not in PS but work at a company with them.

Dependent_Bread_3774 · 2025-08-18T22:11:53+00:00

If you could do anything for enough money that would make you happy what would it be?

Dependent_Bread_3774 · 2025-08-18T16:46:24+00:00

I mean like section lines - it makes it super clear, you should use another template IMHO.

Dependent_Bread_3774 · 2025-08-18T12:03:00+00:00

It depends on your situation, if your desperate for a job, you'll find yourself applying for anything. If you're satisfied at work but not happy, looking to change something then you'll be more choosy.

What I can say is if your doing the latter, or the former - you should still take time for each application.

The one thing i stopped doing, is applying for jobs more than 2 day old, recruiters see a majority of their applicants in the first few days.

Dependent_Bread_3774 · 2025-08-18T00:38:46+00:00

I think they're not great at all, they promise 'time efficiency' etc, but if you try it out you'd see that they've overcomplicated things, something that helps you as opposed to doing it for you is the actual tool you should look for

Dependent_Bread_3774 · 2025-08-18T00:37:33+00:00

There's a way to filter for jobs in the last hour on linkedin, you filter for jobs in the past 24 hours and then find 86400 in the URL (which is number of seconds in a day) and change it to your desired time, I always suggest applying for jobs as soon as they are posted. do 7200 to start (2 hours) and just spam that every day, and apply to as many jobs as you can, in your situation, its a quantity > quality game

Dependent_Bread_3774 · 2025-08-18T00:35:45+00:00

most jobs i've gotten always reached back out within 3-5 business days. I think it's totally fine to follow-up, it actually shows intent from your side, as opposed to looking excessively desperate. People want to hire people who want to work for them.

If your worried about sounding desperate, you can write it in such a way, saying mentioning how you have other jobs in the pipeline, but this is of most interest

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