[emseetech]

It certainly puts a ceiling on a career. And I'd argue it probably gave him a pretty rough shelf life. At some point he has to understand what he's doing.

Unless he's so good at selling his services he can consistently find new clients. And if that's the case, he'd probably kill it in sales.

[dazzawazza]

I'll bet the ceiling is CTO.

[fragmede]

sales engineer is quite a lucrative career. don't have to be really good at it, just enough to be useful.

[snoxy]

Sales engineers have to be good enough to bluff their way through the layers of hyperbole/minor exaggeration/utter bullshit (delete as applicable) the sales team have spun. Whether their conscience gets involved before the deal closes, different question.

[gizmo686]

Not at my work. Around here sales engineers just say "this is a proof of concept, X will be different in the final version". Then, after they close the deal, they give us their half implemented feature they developed that none of us heard about before, and tell ys that we need to finish it and include it in the next release.

[HeyLaughingBoy]

Most people never reach the theoretical ceiling of their careers, so he probably did quite well.

[efilife]

Cope. People often make money on things they know nothing about