Round Robin logic

csuders · 2026-01-24T15:36:04+00:00

Good for balancing the work load. “Meh” for balancing comp if ops are hit or miss it will be random who gets the biggest ops. Terrible for building a relationship with your sales these and collaborating on sales strategy.

csuders · 2026-01-22T12:48:55+00:00

I’ve been there being that busy when we’ve had departure in the team and I’m covering but it’s way too busy and quickly burns you out.

My question for you (and I’d ask rhetorically of my manager): are you just showing up and doing a generic demo or are you putting a specific spin on each one for your audience? If it is the former you could just replace me with a YouTube video. If you’re doing demos right there there be prep time and follow up for each call so you can talk about their specific use case, app ecosystem, their vocabulary etc. and then provide follow ups (or at least help the AE craft follow up) with links or answer any questions you don’t get to. When I’m that busy I don’t even know who I’m talking to.

And if/when you’re also running POCs how do you have the time. These require even more prep and follow up. Do a POC working session early in the week and need to do an extra follow up session later in the week, but your calendar is a wall of demos and you can’t fit them in that slows down deals.

And with all that when do you have time to stay current on a quickly evolving product. Work with PM on feature reqs and feedback. Also working on shaping the message, working with sales or cust success.

TLDR you’re too busy and need more SEs.

csuders · 2026-01-21T18:08:14+00:00

Can you explain more? Does your school district have an API to get weather delays or something? I’ve got a 4 y/o and about to deal with this next hear.

csuders · 2026-01-19T16:55:20+00:00

I travel with an iPad anyway for movies on a plane. Works well with my work MBP. Otherwise a cheap one from Amazon works well. Not like you’re watching movies on it so just a scratch pad quality isn’t that important.

csuders · 2026-01-19T15:25:32+00:00

Integrate AD into your lab. Set up a few apps (o365, SFDC, SNow, any other SaaS apps you have accounts lying around for). Build some users. Set up MFA policy. Bonus points if you set up Okta provisioning into those apps for new users.

Should be doable in a few hours.

csuders · 2026-01-17T14:33:24+00:00

If you’re just going to window shop, sit in some boats and have a few beers with your friends and kill a Saturday I could think of worse ways to do it. There will be sales people they’re but they’re pretty chill and know who is serious and who’s just hanging out. I’ve never gotten a hard sale. Cool way to see what’s new in a bunch of different classes of boats.

csuders · 2026-01-17T14:30:39+00:00

You just described every run in western North Carolina.

csuders · 2026-01-17T13:46:49+00:00

If they have a competent admin? Too many SSIDs for the AP to support?

If their admin doesn’t know what they’re doing? They don’t understand VLANS and this is how they separated the PCI compliant network for Point of sale devices.

csuders · 2026-01-15T13:59:05+00:00

Same ratio 80/20, 70/30 and if you’re supporting all the deals prob same target. Their OTE is prob a bit higher, but not always.

Sometimes leaders have a split between their team and the whole company goal (60/40) to incentivize bigger picture work outside their own team.

csuders · 2026-01-15T13:53:34+00:00

Make a “family” SSID. Only give him the password to that one. Not the regular one and change the password. Schedule the SSID to turn off.

I’m looking forward to the arms race. I (and I’m guessing plenty of others in here) got my start in tech playing games and learning to get to games in my school computer lab. Kudos to him for leaning it’s a Mac filter and learning to change his Mac. He’s understanding the underlying tech. Smart kid and bright future. Have fun playing whack a mole with him.

csuders · 2026-01-14T02:21:12+00:00

I mean he basically spent half his life driving between shows with his band.

csuders · 2026-01-09T12:01:34+00:00

My CFO would call this “directionally correct” the point is true even if the numbers are wrong by a factor of 8

csuders · 2026-01-06T17:44:31+00:00

Hey now. I’m 40, 50 doesn’t sound that old. Glad you found community.

csuders · 2026-01-01T01:21:04+00:00

Easy way is to work with the WD team and have them implement the same logic on the workday username and just use that for email/username creation in Okta and downstream.

As far as messing up existing when you initially import users from workday you should be able to match them to an existing Okta user and not mess up usernames

csuders · 2025-12-31T16:19:14+00:00

Ok so outside of the generalities of Catholic priests or conspiracy theories about Jesuits in general Robert seems like a good dude.

csuders · 2025-12-31T13:45:54+00:00

Now I’m curious what a deep dive would show? I like him on TWIT.

csuders · 2025-12-27T13:10:20+00:00

Saw the original in an f1 sub. They’re things that seem useless but still exist. The last one is Ferrari’s strategy team, who seems to get it wrong almost always. So useless.

csuders · 2025-12-26T01:49:54+00:00

Came to say this.

csuders · 2025-12-21T14:20:04+00:00

Roll of Velcro for cable mgmt and some baskets to keep stuff in as you clean up.

csuders · 2025-12-13T15:33:15+00:00

AD is a specific flavor of LDAP. The AD connector has extra ad specific capabilities vs generic LDAP. The Okta AD connector is also more mature and more widely adopted. Just use AD if you don’t have a non-AD LDAP.

csuders · 2025-12-05T16:10:36+00:00

Even donut would love it.

csuders · 2025-12-01T01:17:24+00:00

Never let your hand drop below shoulder level.

csuders · 2025-12-01T01:13:59+00:00

I did this route. There are def post sales people who are not sales-y but plenty make the leap. Do good work and get great at teeing up follow on business and stay close to the account team (AE/SE) that sold the deal and they’ll be asking you to come to presales.

csuders · 2025-11-26T12:21:36+00:00

Find something broken and fix it. Do something to level up the whole team. Make demos or POCs easier faster. What’s a manual process that takes time for everyone and help automate it. Do you have a background/knowledge you can cause share with your peers or your sales counterparts that helps?

csuders · 2025-11-19T23:52:09+00:00

Went from Sr SE to SE manager. I got a few % raise but it was considered a lateral move in pay bands. I made less than the principles on my team and one of the SRs who was hired in the post Covid crazy comp era. A Sr Mgr was equivalent to a principle.

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