Transitioning to Product from sales engineering.

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Target startups with lots of google alumni. Place a ton of emphasis on your engineering work and get referrals to every place you apply.

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Why are you wanting to leave sales engineering? Curious because I’m interested in transitioning into it.

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Yep. And google does put effort to not make it so but slime finds a way.

I have a friend who made a similar transition. He found a mentor that was willing to work with him and provide consistent feedback. I think that helped accelerate his career by at least 2-3 years. If you know someone like that def take advantage of it.

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I think A1 makes a really good point about targeting startups with alumni. Also worth reaching out/putting out feelers on LinkedIn to see if anyone has a project you can get involved in to build out your experience a bit more

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Update: got an intro call with my favorite enterprise company!!!!

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I did it, it’s very possible. You’ll really need to sell yourself as some who was a “product guardian” rather than sales focused. I think my pricing and ROI model creation helped since that was an immediate need of the team that I joined.

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Why PM? I’ve found a lot of sales engineers to make great PMMs - closer to the customer, established understanding of pain points, etc.

There’s a massive shortage of PMMs that have breadth of what a sales/marketing GTM product release looks like.

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This is something I haven’t looked at closely but I will now. PM because of decent salary and the proximity to engineering.

Hey folks, I’ve been a sales engineer at google for a while and I want to transition to product. Doing so at google is not the optimal option as it sets my career back by two-ish years. I was a sole engineer at a small company before google so I have experience building products from scratch and maintaining it, but not at any significant scale. What are some good strategies for me to make this transition? I have a one year horizon for o transfer. Any projects/courses etc that will help me?

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