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Many of us go to university, wondering what we are supposed to study. Those of us who complete it then graduate, wondering what the job would entail. Once we get the job that we may or may not have thought we wanted, we find that we are bored out of our minds.
Some people stick with it and learn to love it, or simply stick with it. Others try to find a solution. That’s what today’s guest did. Sameer Kausar found himself in a job he was not excited about. So he looked within, and looked around, and identified Sales Engineering as a potential dream job. Since he got the job, he has not looked back since.
Key Takeaways:
- Why development was not for Sameer
- Dancing and PreSales
- Getting into Sales Engineering
- Being a LinkedIn Top Sales Engineering Voice
- Having the confidence to build an SE Team
- Working at a startup
- The complexity of having SE Processes.
- Working with different departments
- Writing content for Sales Engineers
Quotes:
“I got me and got really good at pool. Cause I spent a decent portion of my day doing that while I was developing” About why development was boring to Sameer Kausar
“ The first few months was me doing sanity testing. Which anyone who’s ever done sanity and knows that you don’t stay staying doing sanity testing” – Ramzi Marjaba
“I also didn’t fully understand. The value of the, uh, application that I was building because I was so far removed from the customer that I didn’t see the impact of my work” – Smaeer Kausar
I did not know it was going to work out. I just, I just jumped in and tried – Sameer Kausar
“We tried something, it didn’t work. We figured out why and then tweaked it and tried again” – Sameer Kausar
“I think you honestly just need like a relationship with at least like 1 person from each team across the business” – Sameer Kausar
“I think the biggest disservice companies do to their developers is not show them the impact of their work” – Ramzi Marjaba
