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Honestly it really matters who the hiring manager is. I’ve copied a post from a former Saleforce SE director below. But not all SE leaders have this mindset.
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Hiring: What Matters Most
Businesses routinely get the recruiting of SEs and SE leaders wrong. And it's why SEs are often pigeonholed to low-stakes demo-monkey.
When I'm hiring, here's what I tell my recruiters:
1. Mindset > Expertise
Anyone can learn how to use a hammer. Great SEs know when & why a hammer helps. I have never gone wrong trusting the open-minded amateur over a close-minded expert.
2. Empathy > Know-How
Technical proficiency is a lazy test. The vast majority of tech workers can learn new tech. A buyer cares if "my problem" is solved. Experience from buyer/user perspective is a plus because empathy --> success
3. Curiosity > Delivery
"How well can you demo?" is meaningless. Demo is a learned skill. The best "SE demo calls" I've seen? They never hit a feature and instead focus on needs and trust-building.
4. Great Team > Great Individuals
The SE team is a single organism. You don't need someone great at everything. Hire to team skill & style gaps, and develop. Seek diversity (diversity = strength). Oh, and don't forget your blindspots! A good team is stronger from having an internal critic, a foil.
Hire by these rules, you're well on your way to having a growth/development culture.
Enterprise Commercial Sales
You have no Salesforce product or solution experience and want to work at Salesforce? Maybe three years ago when they were hiring like crazy that MAY have been possible but today you would be a layoff candidate within 6 months. To be more blunt … As a Salesforce client, I wouldn’t want you on my account
Hey D. Seems some vp at SF thinks he is better than you. Don’t let it discourage it you.
Please don’t go into Sales without hands on experience. Or make sure you bring in a Salesforce experienced person at some point in the sales process. When Sales folks don’t have experience, the Salesforce project team ends up getting projects with a vastly understated timeline and it puts a lot of stress on the team to meet that timeline. It’s an issue that I feel like most consulting companies struggle to resolve.
You could transition into a BDR role not an AE role. The cert will help with the SE role but you have to come with strong collaboration, communication, and understanding of the tech specs of the SF portfolio
If you have vertical knowledge that would be transferable to sales. You know their pain, can talk in their terminology and then engage the Salesfore specialists as needed. They team sell
This is an old post, but I went from D to SF as a SE and it’s totally possible. Was a SC doing non-SF implementations and came in as a Lead (L7). It’s all about the intangibles of consulting that you learned, not product knowledge as that can be taught and is largely learned on the job.