GCP sales engineer vs Azure Technical Sales (TSP)

Aug 21, 2017 5 Comments

Which should I pursue? I hear Azure TSPs primarily work from home when not onsite with customers and have 30% travel. I hear travel is the same for Google Sales Engineer, but have to go to the office when not traveling. Also, not sure how comp would differ between the two. Any thoughts?

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  • Amazon
    gloppy

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    gloppy
    A little off topic, but how'd you get into sales engineering? Curious as a SWE looking at other roles
    Aug 21, 2017 1
    • Some come from an appdev background in Microsoft Premier or Services/Consulting as ADMs or Premier Field Engineers. On the Infrastructure side, some come from being industry hires with an infrastructure background with a strong ability to articulate business value while being able to to speak with a technical audience. Cloud experience as a customer or customer-facing cloud service provider helps extremely.
      Aug 22, 2017
  • Fitbit
    Hkw

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    Hkw
    Can't speak for Google, but I know an Azure TSP (l65) pretty well. WFH and Travel is pretty much spot on with lots of meetings on site with customers. Don't know the specifics on comp, but he's definitely not hurting for money-- performance is tracked by utilization of azure services, not total $$$ sold.
    Aug 21, 2017 0
  • Can't comment on GCP.

    How is the compensation structured? Selling Azure is pretty easy right now and demand is exploding.
    Aug 23, 2017 0
  • It depends on your skill set. Open source sales engineers tend to GCP and Visual Studio/.Net devs tend to chose Azure (that's slowly changing of course)
    Aug 21, 2017 0