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Re:Ask HN: How to overcome big company resume to work at a s... by legitster on Thursday August 06, 2015 @04:17PM (#10019129)
Maybe your cover letter is a bit too straight-jacketed. Some candidates I have looked at try too hard to convey professionalism, when what we want as a salesperson is personality.

And about the app: one of the red flags for us is someone's side project. The nature of a small startup is that everyone has to live and breath the work (we all have terrible, terrible work-life balance). Some projects are fine, but for our salespeople, we don't want them selling anything else on the side. You can't serve two masters.

Other than that, I don't exactly know what I can offer. Being in Seattle, I imagine the hiring scene is completely different down there.

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Re:Ask HN: How to overcome big company resume to work at a s... by jklein11 on Friday August 07, 2015 @11:34AM (#10023039)
I'm curious, have you been burnt before by sales people with a side project? My intuition is that if the products aren't competing there wouldn't be a problem. Do you have anecdotal evidence to the contrary?
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