Some notable things:
a. Go. Fly out and plant yourself inside the customer's operation. Weekdays are onsite (Wisconsin, New York, Miami, Los Angeles); weekends we regroup at the SF HQ to debrief and keep building.
Sounds like a 7 day work week to me.
b. Absolute grinder. Interested in co-living (though not required). Comfortable with ambiguity and rapid change.
You're expected to work 7 days a week and completely blur the line between personal and professional life by "co-living"? What kind of person wrote this?
(1 month ago) https://www.linkedin.com/posts/salespatriot_forward-deployed...
> Forward Deployed Engineers in the wild. We said "go relax." They brought their laptops onto a duck float. Because when you're helping customers manage supplier communications semi-autonomously and speed up America's defense industrial base, "break" is a relative term. This is the energy.
(I don’t make a habit of checking that site but happy to make an exception to answer this post’s ‘did I interpret correctly?’.)
It’s wild out there.
However, there’s a scenario worth considering. If you believe that early career people are most at risk of being replaced by AI, then doing a job like this for even a single year is a very compressed way to get several years of experience in a short time. Multiple different customer situations (different industries, tech stacks, cultures), and living in the cult HQ also means you absorb a lot of the experiences of your colleagues through osmosis.
After this when you’re looking to go work for a real company, you’re in a much stronger position in a tight employment market when you can point to 10 actual projects you’ve done with lots of variety.
https://filthydreams.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/View-Job...
https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/salespatriot/jobs/M46X...
What’s the equity and salary for completely dedicating your entire life to this company? Why not just hire two or three normal 40-hour employees?
Catholics like me would refer to that arrangement as “a religious vocation”. So it would come with room & board, wraparound health care, community living, celibacy, hard labor and/or lofty intellectual pursuits.
It’s interesting how the secular world continually tries to recapitulate these phenomena.
Their name is Sales Patriot, hiring a "FDE", and they are funded by YC.
That should be enough information by itself.
Anyway, most of the work is going to be done out of state...
A standard 200k full-time job clocks in at around $96 / hour. This job is more like $64 / hour.
Not quite sure how they get "teams of 20" living in those houses with a total company size of 15, though.