Anyone exited to Tech Sales (Microsoft Amazon specialist, AE roles) - how’s the comp, wlb, and is the work interesting? Also, how did you network for that job (LinkedIn, friends etc)?

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I’ve been looking into this a lot recently. Tech sales seems very similar to consulting, except you’re selling a product instead of a consulting service. At the SM+ level, I would definitely go into tech sales over consulting. At my level (SA), I’m hesitant because I want to leverage my technical skills and I feel like tech sales isn’t very technical

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You can definitely get stuck in sales

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I feel it’s tough to get out of sales from a long term perspective - I could be wrong

That was my perspective for a long time, but the more I’ve looked into those roles and spoken with folks doing “sales”, the more I’m beginning to see that a sales can be very much like problem-solving and delivering value to a client. I’ve gotten that impression from folks selling energy, software, benefits etc but I do agree with you - that feeling is still there in my mind holding me back.

The top sales people here can make like $5M a year. Obviously that’s not the average but the ceiling is ridiculously high considering how big cloud contracts are

Sure, I’m not in sales though

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