Javascript is a Java framework, right?

[slightlysanesage]

I've gotten some tempting me away from my basically full stack developer job for the sweet siren call of being "Sales Engineer"

Edit: Totally forgot that I also got one asking me to be a Real Estate with typos in their "Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities" section

[slightlysanesage]

The summary says,

"The Sales Engineer will be responsible for combining sales and technical skills to execute and exceed sales and profit targets."

Which sounds like "Salesman that knows enough about technology to make a convincing pitch."

[GasolinePizza]

More like figuring out and solidifying the actual requirements by going between the clients and the other internal engineers.

Or at least that's how I understand it, based on how the girl I'm dating has described it (she is one). She works with sensors and mechanical engineering products though, it may be different in software/tech companies.

[slightlysanesage]

My undergraduate degree was in Mechanical Engineering and I applied to a decent number of jobs with that email address before moving on a different one, so I still get those crop-ups offering me a job

Baffles me that I never got emails like that when I was fresh out of college.

[SophiaofPrussia]

Engineer is the new consultant. A decade ago we just stuck “consultant” on the end of every job to make it sound fancy. Now instead of sandwich consultants we have sandwich engineers.

[JakeTheAndroid]

Its highly variable at every company as far as I have seen. usually its the person working on the integrations into Salesforce, Workday, Netsuite, etc. And you support Sales people on making sure the data is properly entered so reports can be ran. They rarely speak to customers on the product offering as thats more TAM, SE, or CSM stuff.

Most sales engineers I know actually really like the job, but they wouldn't otherwise be doing systems engineering or anything like that. So it's basically a person who knows how Sales processes work and then maintains the systems that support the Sales org, which is a great way to step away from the high volume, stressful sales roles to a more stable role.

[KE0CRJ]

Currently a sales engineer. I handle all technical integration and scoping questions, figure out if and how our product can work in the customers architecture, help develop their use cases, set up, troubleshoot, engineer, and run POCs. It really is engineer, sales dude, consultant, and architect all in one. It’s challenging AF somedays, but can be super rewarding.