[nissimk]

I would think that sales would be easier to measure than tech because successful salespeople have a track record with dollar amounts sold.

[xyzzy123]

I’ve seen people do really well at sales within one organisation completely fail in another.

Dollar amounts between salespeople are really only comparable within a given company and maybe not even then taking into account different territories, product lines and times.

[ata_aman]

Agreed. Sales in big companies is also extremely different than sales in startups. Hard to measure how much of the sales is happening because of big company X being your employer (carrying the weight of the process).