How are you all using AI in your SE roles? We've been asked to present on inventive ways to use AI to make our roles more effecitve.

I use GPT to summarize meetings/ extract key points/ help me with additional followup and discovery but outside of this I'm not using it much.

Any great use cases or great tools you are using to make your life easier/ level up your work?

Will we ever learn if our application was Denied because BAL made a mistake?

Can anyone please refer me, have 2 years experience in Java, SQL, Spring Boot, Hibernate and Microservices.
Current company - Cognizant
LWD - 20th October

Thanks,

Would anyone be willing to share their resume? I’d love to see how people with 10+ years experience are framing up what they do in strategy.

Hello fishes
I am about to go through my review meeting. Been 6 months in the company doing email campaigns, google ads campaigns n research and process optimization.
Company is a b2b e-commerce tech.
What salary should I aim for?

Hey! I'm actively looking for opportunities in finance transformation/ fintech roles with 6-8 years of experience. Please let me know for relevant openings in your organization.

Has anyone worked for an accounting advisory (technical accounting) practice and FDD? Which did you like better and why?

I'm in an AAS practice but wonder if I'd like FDD more.

Anyone interested in fashion? Stated a clothing brand. Need sales.

Hello everyone, I need one suggestion from you all.I am working as a web developer and to whom I am thinking of getting married is a PSI (police sub inspector) in a different city. His job location will change in future as per the transfer policy of police.I have to ask if I will get married to him i.e government employee and will take permanent work from home..will it get impacted on my career? Appreciate your suggestions and opinions.Thanks

How much % yearly hikes MasterCard give to its employees for average performance?

Hello Fishes,

I am about to join CTS as bid manager role in SAP. I don't have prior experience with bid management but have functional & implementation experience in SAP.
I just want to know how are the seniors in terms of helping and letting me grasp the process like shadowing etc happens or I would be bombarded with work?
I am a bit worried.

Is the amazon application status of active vs archived (not in consideration) accurate?

What are the top sales & marketing metrics that tech companies track? I have an interview for a Data architect role and the data aspect is my strength but need to brush up on the business insight part

Anyone here work or has interviewed for a data science role at DataRobot? Would love to get some insight. Third interview coming up.

What does Business Analyst at band A2 means in EXL services?

What’s the comp structure for Directors? How much is the base and how does the bonus component work?

Has anyone been Veeva certified? If so, what did you think? Have you seen any ROI yet?

Looking to buy an 💍. Might make a trip to India in 6 months. Any advice on helping me make the decision to buy in US vs India?

Solo trip to Puerto Rico. Any recs? Thanks fam.

Does anyone know how the support escalation engineering role is like at MFST? Any insights would be so helpful..

What’s your typical % bonus in Revenue incentive for won deals?

Has anyone here transitioned to a software engineer from pre-sales? Verdict?

Honest advice please - do you enjoy this work, and why?

What percentage of your total comp is in RSUs?

Recruiter for big tech company reached out on LinkedIn about a role. I asked about ballpark compensation numbers and they said they’re only comfortable sharing on a live call. Replied that I often receive LinkedIn offers for roles of paycuts around 30-50% so I want to make sure we’re in the same rough range. Recruiter again said she would only share via live call. Is this a red flag?

Microsoft CE salary for dc area?

Has anyone moved from federal consulting to sales engineering? What was your experience in doing that?

Anyone feel frustrated at times with the super aggressive sales personalities we deal with? My AE is always pushing on every ask no matter how minuscule it is. My vp is super anal about anything we do. I understand these guys pull in huge commissions and bonuses that’s why they are so motivated. However what I personally feel is they just nag us until we do the job according to their spec. Just venting……anyone else feel the same?

What do you think are the key skills/areas of knowledge for sales engineering? What do you wish you knew when you started?

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

SEs, do you have any side hustles for weekends or weeknights?
I'm in a very HCOL area and my 165k TC isn't enough to comfortably buy a million dollar house (which is a 50 y/o SFH that needs TLC on prob a 1200 living sqft).

Wondering if any of you work side gigs during your free time?

Why did you become a Sales Engineer?

I’ll start: Happenstance.

What are some good ways to get into management?
I am an individual contributor with ~8 years of experience and a strong track record. I enjoy my work, but am getting a little burnt out being directly customer facing. I also want a bigger seat at the table. I am not the most natural people manager, but want to push myself and take on a new challenge.
What can I do to position myself for this?

📚 Resource Thread 📚
Use this thread to drop your favorite books, courses, podcasts, channels, and other resources you find valuable as a Sales Engineer!

Curious what everyone else’s experience has been with refresh RSU grants (ie how many $s in RSUs have you gotten on a yearly basis after your initial new hire grant)

We are starting to build our SE team after a successful pilot with one person. Have you ever built a team from the ground up? How did you prove out the business case? What was most effective for building the case for more hires?

Got offer from Salesforce for the role: Sr Platform Solution Engineer with salary 160k(70/30). Is it a fair salary with 6yrs of consulting exp and SE as the first time(total 6yrs of exp)? Location FL.