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"Slimy sales practices provokes distrust" How many times have you been promised the world by a sales person and then you speak with an engineer and get a whole
by ropiwqefjnpoa 7y ago
"Slimy sales practices provokes distrust"
How many times have you been promised the world by a sales person and then you speak with an engineer and get a whole different story? I've learned to always speak with an engineer and find the manager of an existing customer.
Sometimes it's good, sometimes not so much.
- thrav 7y agoBeing on the other side, there are plenty of times that I have to tell the customer, “this world is only going to happen if you make the proper investment in setting this up specific to your needs...” and then they complain when an already overworked employee they threw it over the fence to can’t make it sing. Good enterprise software is almost never one size fits all, and there is responsibility on both sides to end up with something great.
- bhandziuk 7y agoRight, enterprise software is usually relying on the end user to program everything but instead of programming in C#/Javascript they're programming in Salesforce (or whatever)
- thrav 7y agoI wouldn’t say everything. The whole point is not to rebuild security, and infra, and the data store, etc. etc. The first start up I worked for built a piece of software that was adopted by large enterprises in regulated industries with 3 engineers, because they got to piggyback off of the Salesforce foundation. It’s just a different flavor of abstraction.
- ropiwqefjnpoa 7y agoThat's an honest answer I would appreciate and understand, much preferred over "Yes, but actually no"