{"id":7504,"date":"2016-04-19T10:09:37","date_gmt":"2016-04-19T14:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/?p=7504"},"modified":"2016-04-19T14:15:40","modified_gmt":"2016-04-19T18:15:40","slug":"sales-engineering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/sales-engineering\/","title":{"rendered":"Sales, Engineering"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>By Larry Chiang<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>No one wants to be known as a salesman when they&#8217;re an engineer.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>So, that&#8217;s why sales engineers get a 30% pay increase over the best engineer. Because sales engineers have <b>sales<\/b> in the title and a set of skills that many educated engineers won&#8217;t learn, they get significantly extra pay.<\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"E1433A87-B958-44FB-853E-FA250FE15D8C\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/image139.jpg\" alt=\"image1.JPG\" \/><\/div>\n<div>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.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Fact:<\/p>\n<table style=\"border: 1px solid black; padding: 8px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\n<td width=\"48\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 48px; height: 48px; padding-right: 8px;\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/613751289587957760\/ZN0VKUOa_normal.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/td>\n<td><b>Larry Chiang (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/larrychiang?refsrc=email&amp;s=11\">@LarryChiang<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\">\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/larrychiang\/status\/721397350992719872?refsrc=email&amp;s=11\">4\/16\/16, 10:58 AM<\/a><\/div>\n<div>In <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23SiliconValley&amp;src=hash\">#SiliconValley<\/a>, the best engineers can sell cars better than your best car salesman who never finished high school.<br \/>\nThink about <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23cs183s&amp;src=hash\">#cs183s<\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Elon Musk took a deposit down for a car that hasn&#8217;t been made yet. This makes him a pretty good salesman. Elon Musk landed a rocket vertically. This makes him a pretty legendary engineer.<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Larry Chiang No one wants to be known as a salesman when they&#8217;re an engineer. So, that&#8217;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&#8217;t learn, they get significantly extra pay. Doing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stanford-engineering"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}