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Has anyone here made the jump from "engineering" to "sales"? I started as a freelance webdev and now I'm a SWE at a bigco, but I dislike being an engineer. La
by throwing_away 4y ago
Has anyone here made the jump from "engineering" to "sales"?
I started as a freelance webdev and now I'm a SWE at a bigco, but I dislike being an engineer. Lately I've been questioning if I really want to do a whole career of it.
It's quite isolating that the only people I interact with during working hours are other engineers or leadership, and all we talk about is technology.
I know a lot about software and sold IT services to small businesses as a freelancer, but I have no formal SaaS sales experience.
Any former engineers turned SaaS salesmen have any advice?
- ultrasaurus 4y agoTalk to any manager in sales/solutions engineering at your company, they are always desperate for people who know the product well and probably willing to train you.
- creakingstairs 4y agoHave you tried looking at adjacent roles in your bigco? e.g. sales engineer, tech evangelist, heck even technical writer team. Maybe talk to your manager to do if you could some shadowing or secondment just to see if you'll like it.