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I’m a software engineer with less than 5 year experience that wants to make the move into sales. Should I make the switch by first getting a sales engineer position and then moving to sales? Or should I just get an entry level SDR/BDR position and work my way up. What should I do?
how ... these positions hard to get
You can start in tech support for the company, learn the product and build relationships with people in the sales org, and then make the move to SE in a year
The problem with BDR/SDR roles is that you’d be lucky to get half of what your TC is now
Being an SDR/BDR will help you in the long term. Being a pre-sales SE will give you a pay more than SDR in the beginning, but not learning the building blocks could cost you. You’re basically doing algebra before learning division. Be a SDR for 3 months and then transition to an SE role. So, SDR > SE > MM AE > ENT AE or Leadership
DO NOT GO STRAIGHT TO SDR ROLE. You will hate your life. Go for an SE role. That's a good mixture of sales and engineering. You will quickly realize if you still want to go AE path or not. No org will hire you as an AE coming from swe role. SDR sucks bc you're way too qualified. you may even suck at an SDR role and you will feel even shittier.
Sales engineer definitely