Sales Recruitment IndiaJune 15, 2026•2 min readHow SDRs Are EvaluatedScooter's own screening data scores SDR and BDR candidates on four components: Requirements Fit, Market Alignment, Experience Match, and Performance Match. Acr…Written by Kartik Mandrekar0Read blog
Sales Recruitment IndiaJune 12, 2026•2 min readWhat's a Reasonable Notice Period for a Sales Hire in India?Across Scooter's hiring data, immediate availability is by far the largest single bucket among sales candidates, roughly half of all candidates with notice-per…Written by Kartik Mandrekar0Read blog
Sales Recruitment IndiaJune 8, 2026•2 min readWhat Is a GTM Engineer, and Why Is Everyone Hiring One?A GTM Engineer is a technical revenue operator: someone who designs, runs, measures, and progressively automates a company's outbound systems, rather than a tr…Written by Kartik Mandrekar0Read blog
Sales Recruitment IndiaJune 5, 2026•2 min readSales Compensation Benchmarks in India, by Role (2026)Across roughly 2,500 India-based sales candidates in Scooter's own hiring data, current compensation sits at a median of ₹12L, with candidates expecting a medi…Written by Kartik Mandrekar0Read blog
Sales Career & Job SearchJune 1, 2026•2 min readThe Interview Question That Predicts Sales Success Better Than the Resume Ask a room full of sales leaders what's wrong with hiring salespeople and you'll hear the same complaint in different words: the resume tells you almost nothin…Written by Kartik Mandrekar0Read blog
Evaluating Sales TalentMay 29, 2026•2 min readSales Hiring : Like Bumble? We keep coming back to the same comparison in our own meetings, and I still don't know what to do with it. Someone will say it almost as a throwaway line, that…Written by Kartik Mandrekar0Read blog
Sales Hiring for FoundersMay 25, 2026•7 min readThe Real Life of a Sales Hiring Process The Real Life of a Sales Hiring Process Most of the people I talk to land in one of two buckets, and they both think they're describing the same problem: "hiri…Written by Kartik Mandrekar0Read blog
Sales Craft & MethodologyMay 22, 2026•3 min readArush Lakhani - Give Away the Idea That You Need to Be Liked Give Away the Idea That You Need to Be Liked Arush Lakhani took his first sales job for the least romantic reason possible: out of his MBA, it was the firm pay…Written by Kartik Mandrekar0Read blog
May 18, 2026•3 min readCan This Person Sell My Product?Every sales hiring decision comes down to one real question: can this person sell my product? But most hiring processes never actually test that. Instead, they…Written by Kartik Mandrekar0Read blog
Sales Recruitment IndiaMay 15, 2026•6 min readWhat 3 of the Best Sales Recruiters Think About Sales HiringEveryone's CV Says They Crushed Quota. That's Exactly the Problem. Open ten sales resumes and you'll read the same resume ten times. Same fonts, same verbs, sa…Written by Kartik Mandrekar0Read blog
Sales Recruitment IndiaMay 11, 2026•3 min readDo I trust AI recruiters?Do I trust AI recruiters? There's a moment in most of these hiring-manager calls where I stop taking notes and just listen, because what's being described isn'…Written by Kartik Mandrekar0Read blog
Sales Hiring for FoundersMay 8, 2026•3 min readTwo Blind People Hiring Each OtherThe Time Trap Almost every founder I talk to believes the same thing before their first sales hire, and almost every one of them is wrong about it in the same…Written by Kartik Mandrekar0Read blog
