Ask HN: Does your company offer commission for engineers?

Re:Ask HN: Does your company offer commission for engineers? by JohnFen on Thursday February 20, 2020 @11:52AM (#22376408)

I have never heard of a software company that offers commissions like this before, personally. I've also never heard of companies that expect devs to leverage personal contacts on behalf of the sales team.

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Re:Ask HN: Does your company offer commission for engineers? by idunno246 on Thursday February 20, 2020 @12:01PM (#22376492)

ive never seen it for sales either, but ive seen it for recruiting. get everyone in a room, give them a linkedin search, and tell them to add people to a spreadsheet for sourcers to reach out to. i always nope out of those, they cant really force you to give up your friends, so id just ignore any expectation of leveraging contacts

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Re:Ask HN: Does your company offer commission for engineers? by JohnFen on Thursday February 20, 2020 @01:24PM (#22377259)

> give them a linkedin search, and tell them to add people to a spreadsheet for sourcers to reach out to

Maybe that practice is a big part of what makes LinkedIn so horrible. The constant spam from recruiters is what led me to delete my LinkedIn account.

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