Question for all the Salesforce employees out there: which should I apply for? A Solutions Engineer position or a Salesforce professional services role focused on delivery? Looking to make the move but would want to know more about how the two compare in regards to total comp, WLB, career progression, exit opportunities, etc.

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SE all day long.

It’s only a meat grinder if you let it be. You either position yourself to progress to another role or you stay there and let the AEs do as they please.

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Industries, vertical, cloud. Move higher up the customer chain to enterprise or strat enterprise.

Moving away from core is the best move to make as an SE.

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What does the career path from SE look like? I’ve debated switching from implementation consulting but not sure if it pigeon-holes you

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DM if you’d like to talk more!

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SE is much better pay and much less work- unsure what meatgrinder person above is talking about. Most in my group make 200+ and work 40-44 hrs.

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Where are you and can and I come? CORE- Commercial and am dying for some WLB, help!

SE role is Sales and is a MEATGRINDER. Not close to the PS role to say, have a friend who just was acquired with the Acumen and she's been assigned to a badass customer and is taking the role even though she was offered $20k more at Slalom.

Correct S5!

One is pre-sales and the other is actual project deliver. Do you want to sell or do you like actual implementation work? Typically people lean one way or the other. Really a question of your skillset and career path.

If you want to do both the answer is to be on the delivery side- we have roles that help sell our services and do execution support. At the Director+ levels, but you typically grow into this role after proving your execution ability. The pre-sales side will never do any sort execution outside of demos and POCs.

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ProServ will require more travel and slightly less pay compared to SEs. Most SEs I know travel to customers 1-2 days a week pre-COVID. Might be more like 2-3 days depending on your customers and some are local

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