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What SSA1 said is spot on.
That said, any good Sales Engineer worth their paycheck knows how to deal with unreasonable customer mindsets and objections. And more importantly, how to do discovery and find out what the customer is actually looking to solve.
The interviewer is your “customer”. You are your “solution”.
If they say your experience is “not right” and your reply is to defend your experience and give your opinion why their opinion is wrong … then you’ve kind of already failed the test (whether it’s intended as a test or not).
You should be asking WHY they would say that and what experience they think you lack. Then address those specific pain points with your experiences and challenges you’ve overcome and successes you’ve had.
Just like you would if it was a customer saying they think your solution isn’t as good as the competitor’s.
Start networking. Build relationships that will facilitate being introduced to organizations rather than beingin a position to apply.
Begin by building your brand. Post on LinkedIn and other social media platforms. Comment on industry events, speak to implementation challenges you experience and how you overcame them - be more than your resume.
If you put yourself out there, opportunities will come.
I can’t control the deal sizes I work on now or who my current company’s ICP is but the most frustrating part is my domain expertise seems to be completely ignored. Has anyone else navigated anything similar before ?
Sometimes it is just impossible to make somebody happy with what you have to offer, if it doesn’t fit into a very specific box, they don’t care. Now with that all being said, there are some things you can try to do for the places that aren’t like that. Find the connections between the experience you do have and how it relates to the roles you want to move into. Give specific examples/numbers/etc. that show this.