On May 30, 11:09 am, Mxsmanic wrote:
Robert M. Gary writes:
Sales engineering is now very, very big and can't be off-shored.

Sales engineering is an oxymoron.

Apparently you aren't familiar with the technology industry so I'll
explain what the term means. Sales guys don't know much about
technology so they bring sales engineers out with them (or ahead of
them). The sales engineer talks tech with the customer and sets up
demo type of stuff. The actual sales guy just talks to the finance guy
and the C-executive (CEO, CTO, COO, etc). Sales engineers make salary
plus a piece of the sales person's commission. Since that job requires
travel in the U.S. its hard to outsource right now (its taking us
about 4 weeks to get business Visas for employees coming into the U.S.
for periods of 1 to 2 weeks of travel). Most of our sales engineers
live all over the country working out of their house and traveling
about 2 weeks per month. Again, its amazing to me how some people are
so confident in their opinion of the U.S. job market as they sit in
their parent's basement.

-Robert