Any advice or thoughts on the experience required to get hired at Salesforce as a Solution Engineer vs Sr Solution Engineer?

Yoe: 3
Experience type: Functional Consultant

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Go ahead and take mine because I’m out lol

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About $80k

Exactly what do sales engineers do? I’ll look up a job description, but just curious. I have 2.5 years of experience in Salesforce consulting and qa as well as over 5 years experience with Oracle. Based on what I’m reading, it seems I could possibly be a good fit for an SE role.

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You tag team w an AE to sell and close deals

If you have consulting experience you’ll get hired as a Sr. SE no problem. Start networking to ask someone you know to refer you.

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I really hope they’re not handing out lead for 3YOE

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I came from a Salesforce consulting background including 4 years at Salesforce as a CSM and later an Solution Architect on the Professional services team...my recommendation is don't just limit yourself to Salesforce! There's a lot of SE roles out there that want BA backgrounds.

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Shoot for the moon, worst case you land among the stars

They love those with consulting experience for SE roles. What type of Salesforce experience do you have?

My experience is mainly as a Salesforce BA, but I also have experience with declarative development. I also have quite a few Salesforce certifications.

I got hired as senior with 2.5 YOE of salesforce consulting experience (discovery and implementation)

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