By Larry Chiang
No one wants to be known as a salesman when they’re an engineer.
So, that’s why sales engineers get a 30% pay increase over the best engineer. Because sales engineers have sales in the title and a set of skills that many educated engineers won’t learn, they get significantly extra pay.
Doing well at sales earns you a lot. Doing good engineering work, pays you a lot also. Finding a person who does both requires the employer to pay a premium.
Fact:
Larry Chiang (@LarryChiang) | |
In #SiliconValley, the best engineers can sell cars better than your best car salesman who never finished high school.
Think about #cs183s |
Elon Musk took a deposit down for a car that hasn’t been made yet. This makes him a pretty good salesman. Elon Musk landed a rocket vertically. This makes him a pretty legendary engineer.