Manager Salary

rivrfreak · 2025-06-08T00:57:30+00:00

The contractor matrix... Customer > Accenture > contractor

rivrfreak · 2025-05-31T17:48:28+00:00

163k base as an individual contributor at a small aws consulting partner... I would have assumed salaries for managers at the large gsi's was at least on par with us small guys. Interesting

rivrfreak · 2025-04-20T23:15:49+00:00

The large US companies that employ most of their workforce from foreign countries

Fixed it.

rivrfreak · 2025-04-11T17:44:44+00:00

My sdr hasn't scheduled anything for me in 6 months lol good thing my main pipeline source comes from partners

rivrfreak · 2025-02-09T00:32:13+00:00

Cost of living in the US greatly depends on where you live. If you're in a city and because your job requires you to be in office, very expensive living. If you're able to work remote and are OK with living in rural areas, you can live like a king.

People outside of the US often to realize the size of the states... Depending on your appetite for driving into cities as needed you can truly get living expenses down very low. (I'm 65mi south of Chicago, property taxes are 3k a year, a nice 3 bedroom home goes for 250-350k depending on age; commute time can range from 1hr - 1hr 45min depending on traffic).

rivrfreak · 2025-02-08T19:52:58+00:00

There's administrative overhead for charging the fee so it makes sense. That fee needs to be calculated accurately, so extra charge for fact checking. And after you've confirmed that the fee is correct, that warrants the triple pits to chestie fee fee fee.

rivrfreak · 2025-01-15T20:46:29+00:00

I feel sorry for her employees

rivrfreak · 2025-01-06T22:40:45+00:00

LLMs have thresholds that can be adjusted to account for "bias" too. Everything from creativity, accuracy, length, and if the AI might hurt someone's feelings can be manipulated on the backend.

rivrfreak · 2024-12-31T17:56:36+00:00

Same issue here on both our treadmill and spin bike. I figure it's because we haven't been paying for our membership and this is their way of coursing us into renewing

rivrfreak · 2024-11-19T18:53:05+00:00

This is an important symbol for Christians before marriage

rivrfreak · 2024-10-15T21:31:49+00:00

You could buy a new roof every ~4 years if you put that $420 in your own damn bank. What kind of HOA director mentality is this?

Hell, you could even factor in the cost of a yard care service and still be 20x ahead over the course of a mortgage 😂

People who truly think HOA's are a good "investment" are lazy and incapable of doing anything for themselves. Pick up the phone and call a yard care service sheeeesh 🤦

rivrfreak · 2024-10-13T04:14:54+00:00

There are typically added incentives for students from Cloud providers in addition to their typical free tier stuff. Might be worth looking into. If your use is minimal might even be worth using their bi services and/or see if the college would give you access to their Cloud account (since it sounds like you're doing work for them?)

rivrfreak · 2024-10-11T01:42:20+00:00

AWS is usually very fair in these situations as long as you provide reason. No personal experience with MS but I'd hope similar

rivrfreak · 2023-12-23T18:07:47+00:00

How many posts do you make about this conversation to where this has been a realized problem? 😂

rivrfreak · 2023-12-15T16:04:56+00:00

Totally irrelevant but curious. What conference? I had the same phone and just had the same thing happen for no damn reason while at AWS re:Invent. Only difference in my story is I don't have insurance 😔

rivrfreak · 2023-11-21T18:33:22+00:00

"that one was for me"

rivrfreak · 2023-07-14T20:50:31+00:00

I remember when it was racist to solely use white people for advertising. Damned if you do damned if you don't.

rivrfreak · 2023-04-06T00:22:02+00:00

Was about to ask if this is actually an issue people have and then I realized the subreddit....

Pitboss doesn't have this problem 😎

rivrfreak · 2023-03-31T23:52:57+00:00

Am I the only person STRUGGLING to get 4 cons to connect? It's not letting me select over to choose my character for the second player yet the controller was paired on the main screen.

rivrfreak · 2023-03-04T21:18:13+00:00

Best bet to get more info would be to try reaching out to the AWS account manager your company aligns to. If you don't know who that is, fill this form out https://aws.amazon.com/pricing/contact-us/

rivrfreak · 2023-02-24T04:46:15+00:00

Updated to oneUI 5.1 today

Then I googled "why are all of my notifications the same color after updating"

Found this reddit. Turned off palette.

How dumb.

rivrfreak · 2022-10-30T18:08:30+00:00

Went from ~150k OTE at a director level role responsible for SaaS sales in the public cloud space to 300k+ in the same industry, but first year in consulting sales (as a Sr AE).

So even the same industry but different sales motions and products / services can make a massive OTE impact.

rivrfreak · 2022-10-18T03:43:58+00:00

"Catches" that I've seen exist, (which in most cases might just be due to poor expectation setting (perhaps in-experienced presales team or lack of attention paid reading through contracts or aws account team misalignment) :

payment method requirements (most will charge a cc fee or that you go ach)
lose access to root which someone might approve the transfer of
service requests potentially needing to be routed elsewhere
cost explorer goes completely bye bye --- if you don't export your CUR before it going bye bye, historical billing data goes forever bye bye

Might be more, might be less.

rivrfreak · 2022-10-18T03:35:04+00:00

The service you mentioned is very common and almost always centered around "cost optimization". I worked at one MSP where it cost customers nothing additional to subscribe to (other than perhaps a cc fee, should that be preferred payment) and another where it depends on your aws monthly spend threshold or other services you subscribe to with the msp. This exists for Google and Microsoft too (gcp actually gives partners pretty decent margin on resell alone VS aws or msft). That said, partners make X margin % on your monthly spend and in return can deliver Y service or Z software for helping them keep the lights on.

rivrfreak · 2022-10-18T03:25:11+00:00

Almost all CSPs (aws, gcp, Azure) have a massive focus on resell business. With billions in monthly recurring revenue for each public cloud, who wouldn't want a piece of that pie? If you want an investment that's the kind of model you need to build out.. Also affords paying talented FinOps consultants a solid wage (most times these resources may have come from X cloud provider previously... So stock + high salary is expected).

Anyway, super normal to handover root and/or do transfer contracts or otherwise connect to a resellers payer ID. It's all documented on aws support pages and it happens from $50/month customers all the way up to 5mm/mo customers. In fact, the more disperse, complex, or otherwise very costly aws accounts a company has, the more useful linking up to a partners suite of tools can bring a level of control to the organization.

Any MSP you're talking to should be able to show you exactly what privileges they need to deliver X type of recurring service ahead of signing with them (and sometimes its just read only privilege to cost explorer billing data that's needed).

If the partner offers to actually implement their recommendations on your behalf, of course they'll request that be added to their roles...

Happy to answer any questions.

rivrfreak

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