I've been a professional software programmer for the past 6 years, been programming for fun since I was around 15.
I work for a company that sells a technical product and the sales team is looking for people with a good technical undertanding of the product. They call the position "sales engineer".
I've never done sales or sales engineering and so was wondering if HN had any advice, anecdotes or teachings around the good and the bad parts of moving to sales or sales engineering. If you have any cool resources to share, that would also be great.
I work for a company that sells a technical product and the sales team is looking for people with a good technical undertanding of the product. They call the position "sales engineer".
I've never done sales or sales engineering and so was wondering if HN had any advice, anecdotes or teachings around the good and the bad parts of moving to sales or sales engineering. If you have any cool resources to share, that would also be great.