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I made this
(poptalk.scrubbles.tech)
cross-posted from: https://poptalk.scrubbles.tech/post/1069636
Forgive the hastily made meme. All too common with us engineers.
I mean you CAN just get an evening marketing job, 8-5 engineering, half hour break, 5.30-1:30am writing marketing copy, designing campaigns, A/B testing, budget management, demand gen, lead gen, sales enablement, CRO/CPC/CAC management, Martech tool alignment, attribution tracking, SEO research, content marketing, press releases and 3P distribution tools, all of which matched against brand voice and targeting to ABM the specific ICP within each vertical.
There's literally nothing stopping you.
so half my day would be filled with bullshit, great
ah yes, the famously bullshit-free career of software engineering
Exactly. Why add on?
I mean I'm kidding around, but really, most of the time we're making a product to sell, and then selling the product to make more of it (or a new/better version of it) so that we can sell it more... so we can make it more... to sell more...
Its just all part of the same cycle. The OP meme could equally be:
Sales/Marketing: I made this sale
[...]
Product: I made this sale.
its bullshit all the way down.
I understand there's some jest in this expression but I strongly object. I work tuning queries and doing that awful database shit yall dread and I find a lot of fulfillment in supporting devs and providing a better user experience.
I can guarantee you I'd be stuck in the deepest depths of depression if I tried a career in sales. Job satisfaction is high enough a priority for me that I'm currently wrestling with my dumbass PE overlords to stop trying to bankrupt our company even as they underpay me by an embarrassing amount.
Yea, but, alternatively, sales could just stop being entitled pricks. I've worked with sales people that were excellent - they had a technical mind and were able to grasp what our product could and couldn't do and, if they were uncertain... they would fucking ask me. And I've worked with sales people that won't tell me they made a sale until two months later when the deadline is a week away.
Nah fam just sell something that doesn't exist and make engineers magic it into existance that week
h8 u
(/jk, of course)
Best software salesman I ever met was the best because he knew how to fucking listen. He worked for an electrical engineering software company. First time I ever met the guy, he flies into town to meet with my employer, his client, for the first time after taking over the account. I called him up and asked if I could buy him dinner the night before the big meeting, basically to warn him that they're on the verge of getting fired.
Dude walks into the meeting the next day with nothing but a pen and a legal pad, introduces himself, and says something like, "I'm not happy because I've heard you all are not happy. I'm going to do whatever I can to fix that so I want you to tell me every single problem you're having no matter how small you think it is." And they let him have it for a good two hours. He took it like a champ, listened to and documented every single complaint, and made an actual effort to get fixes for the things we were upset about. He saved a $2 million a year account just by listening and making an effortto help keep the customer happy.
I guess the moral of the story is, good salespeople don't sell products. They solve problems.