Senior SDR here. Missed quota for the past 3 months.

I’ve been in this role for 10 months now. Average SDR lifecycle at my company went from 9 months to 12-15 months as of managements changes for 2023.

I was 213% to quota last year. Got promoted in January from an SMB SDR to a Corporate/Mid Market SDR or a “Senior SDR”.

Since the Job change, I have not hit my numbers whiles my other teammates have. Should I be worried? I have more tenure than most of the 30+ SDRs at my company.

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They’ll likely give you a heads up before anything goes down.

It also depends on the company, the product you sell, the industry you’re aligned to and so on.

Generally the longer the sales cycles and the bigger the product, you’re given more leeway to miss.

I’ve worked at some companies where you miss 2 months in a row and you are put on a PIP and you are out.

I’ve worked at others where you could miss for whole quarters but it is okay as the company expects this due to the product or service not being remotely transactional.

They usually expect an over performance in other quarters though

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2 months and you’re out?! That’s probably a red flag. Most SDRs definitely wouldn’t make it in my company if that were the case. And I know winter months are harder in most sales orgs. You would have to catch up to your quota tho.

And you’re right, I doubt I’ll ever get on the pip, but I left a really great reputation last year that is not catching up this year. Our customers that in our industry are tightening their belts rn

I like the idea of sticking with this company but I’ve been entertaining the idea of applying elsewhere as an AE

Please help me out I don’t understand

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