Sales Engineers

How do you spend most of your week? I spend about 10-15 hours on customer calls, 10-20 on internal calls, and the rest is prep time and follow ups

Hello! I’m seasoned Sales/Sales Engineering Recruiter getting ready to wrap up a contract with a large Cyber Security company. Previous experience includes Cisco as well as smaller pre IPO organizati… more

Senior salesforce consultant at Deloitte, Austin 170k TC (155 base+15 bonus) interviewing for data cloud-lead SE position at salesforce. Is my expectation of 200k+ base unachievable? How often bonuse… more

My comp plan doesn’t come out until April…I don’t get why they can’t be realized earlier

Do you space out your week in terms of meetings? Or do you group them on certain days? For example, I won’t schedule customer calls on Mondays unless it’s urgent

What is an ideal work life balance for you all? 9-5? Or flexible hour (I.e grocery at 3pm but some work done at 9pm)

Would you go from a SE role to a AE role?

Hi all, my company want to hire someone under me so I’ll be an manager soon. Any tips for transition from individual contributor to manger ?

What hobbies or side projects keep you sane on off-days?

Top differences between Sales Engineering for Service Now vs Salesforce? Only if you have the experience of course!

How much of a raise did you get this year? Mine was a way lower % (4%) than I expected and it's making me want to look elsewhere ASAP.

I thought having a two hour 8 AM demo was bad, then thought having a two hour 7 AM was crazy.
Well I just had my first three hour 7 AM demo and holy crap was that horrific. 😴
Anyone that can top me wit… more

Is anyone else just completely burned out, especially after these last few years? How do you find time and energy for yourself outside of work?

Not sure about you all but does anyone else have a habit of trading while working. Days like today are hard to concentrate 😂

Do you do “+1” type activities in addition to customer work? If so, what do you prefer to do?

What trends or shifts are you seeing in your clients' industries?

Finished with my work 9:30 AM. Do I hop on the xbox or do “extra” stuff for the company?

How do you all set up the relationship between AEs and SAs? I have some AEs that view me as 50/50 to them, and even if some calls involve me less, it becomes my choice not to join.

However, I have a new AE that sa… more

How long do you plan to work as a sales engineer? Or do you plan to move into another role? I'm starting to feel so worn-down and uninspired that I'm starting to think about making a change.

How do you stay organized when supporting multiple reps and tons of customers?

10x’ing the number of customers I have this week. Should be fun 😭

How long should you stay at a company before starting to look for your next opportunity. Been at my current SE job for 2 years. This is my first job out of college . I’m currently at $120k base and $1… more

Snowflake SE technical interview - any insights? If anyone’s gone through this just want to get a sense if this is more of a call over concepts or if I’ll be coding SQL. If the latter, any sense on if… more

How do you guys handle micro manage AE? Trying to be respectful here

My manager is frustrated. Her team got reorganized, and I’m moving to a different and new team. She said based on new quotas, that she thinks the new team will come close to hitting 200% of quota, and… more

Does anyone else have to deal with RMs who are reminiscent of Tom Smykowski from Office Space?

Ours can have zero knowledge of the product or service and solely act as couriers of information. I don’t see how that… more

Looking for recommendations for intro to coding and/or API foundations free courses. I know this is an open ended question, but my current sales engineering role isn't very technical and I feel I … more

My AE is incredibly disorganized, and it’s somewhat manageable with only a couple of accounts. Now, they are adding 10 more accounts, and I worry that there won’t be structure or plan to approach how … more

How many of you work in a round robin AE to SE it your company has dedicated AE to SE. what’s the golden AE to SE ratio?

What’s the biggest deal you’ve closed? What’s the hardest deal you’ve closed?

How do you like to set “ways of working” with your AEs? What boundaries do you set?

How long do you think it should take to transition accounts to someone new?

Getting reorganized shortly, shoot some prayers out 🫡

Sales Engineer to Product Management and vice versa. Has someone made the jump? How was it?

I’m a happy SE that has always wondered about the PM role. How lucrative is the other side of all these clien… more

Has anyone got loop back into deal they sold cause post sales is not enough to support 🥲. I’m now on all weekly standup with them.

What took your results to the next level ?

I feel I've had a block where I'm having a hard time getting better at my role. Lately I have trimmed down my demos and become a bit more prescriptive with my cu… more

Any sales engineer at Snowflake? I have an interview and wanted to know what types of questions would be asked

My company's management realized that they needed leadership for the sales engineering team and have promoted me to sales engineering manager. I requested a salary bump at the time which they're still rev… more

Any tips on dealing with an AE that constantly interrupts during demos?