For most of my SE career I have been fortunate to either have enough resources to build out home labs or be close to a local lab facility. With the availability of cheap hardware (craigslist!) and virtual computing there really is no excuse for not being able to have some testing resources available at your disposal. With [...]
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As an SE, I always highly valued my lab days. To me, a lab day was simply a day that was informally spent learning about technology. Though it could take many forms, this most often meant investigating aspects of our products I wasn’t familiar with, getting hands on installation time, and sharing experiences with other [...]
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Here’s how it typically goes:
A startup hires a VP of Sales. S/he actively sells to customers until enough growth or funding comes in that a team of reps can be hired. The reps will be expected to be very well versed in the product details. In super technical areas, an initial SE or two may [...]
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