Comment by TheMagicHorsey
5 days ago
I used to work at Intel (around 1999) in their Jones Farm campus in Oregon. My employee stock grants from that time are still underwater.
This was the heyday at Intel. I left within a year because I noticed that the talent that was respected, compensated and influential at Intel was the sales engineers. I can't pretend to have known that would lead to the decline of the company, but I knew that as an engineer uninterested in sales, that it wasn't the place for me.
I'd love to hear more about how the "sales engineers were the influential ones" manifested. I have an idea in my head, but I'm curious about details.
What would sales engineers be responsible for at a company like intel? I thought that was more of a SaaS thing.