Can't take the list seriously when functionality is just 1 of the 5 weights. Like I don't care how good or bad the other weights are but if search and UI is broken, I won't be using it unless I'm forced to.
I forgot one more thing. Your technical aptitude carries less weight as an SE. Getting the technical win at a customer is what you're evaluated on.
Since you're almost always working with engineers and technical stakeholders at the customers you're selling to, you need to be able to talk the talk to fit in, gain their trust and help them see the value of what you're selling.
But those skillets alone won't get the technical win. This is where the sales part of sales engineering matters, and it matters a lot.
A quick example: a common mistake many new SEs coming from consulting make while giving demos is showing customers everything about a product step-by-step instead of showing them only what the customer said they care about (which you, hopefully, learned in the initial discovery call) and/or what they need to see (because other similar customers usually care about those things).
The former comes very naturally to consultants, as that's a big part of the job, but giving demos this way makes it much easier to NOT show what the customer needs to see AND increases the likelihood of you showing a deficiency in the product that can reduce interest or, if it's bad enough, kill the deal.
You won't come across those kind of skills unless you (a) founded a company and try hard to build business or (b) work in sales. But these skills make or break SEs.
I have two resumes: eng.resume.carlosnunez.me and consulting.resume.carlosnunez.me. The `consulting` resume highlights my strategic/sales side whereas the `eng` resume shows off my engineering work.
resume.carlosnunez.me symlinks to eng since that's what I want to highlight, but I'll share `consulting` if the role is interesting enough.
It wasn't ill timed. Any sane leader would understand both size and cost of tech always comes down rather quickly over time. He's just refused to accept having lidar uglify his cars or wait for it to get smaller. He instead fabricates about humans don't have lidars so cars shouldn't have them and sold "no lidars on Teslas" as an advantage instead of the opposite and refuses to accept the truth due to needing to feed his ego. Firing all non-yesmen didn't help either.
That strikes me as a weak argument. We have vehicles with legs, but wheels are just better, practically speaking.
The argument is that humans provide a proof-of-concept that vision + neural net can drive a car, because (for some reason) some people doubt this is possible. However there's no need for a "proof of concept" that mechanical legs can be built, because everyone already know that building mechanical legs is possible.
Maybe, but those claims have yet to be shown in the real world.
Waymo has certainly had its share of issues lately on the "practicality" axis. The cost of (actually good enough) LiDAR hardware doesn't help practicality either.
> Maybe, but those claims have yet to be shown in the real world.
They surely have as Waymo have a much better safety record than Tesla and that's even with Tesla hiding and obscuring their crash data - probably outright lying about most crashes if Musk has any input to their processes.
The big advantage of Lidar is that it can easily pick out obstructions and that's a good ability for a driver to have, whereas Teslas can get fooled by shadows etc. It seems obvious to me that having cameras and Lidar allows for much better analysis of traffic and pedestrians.
>They surely have as Waymo have a much better safety record than Tesla
Tesla is already closing in on Waymo to within a factor of 2[0], and this is less than 6 months in, with Waymo having 125 million autonomous miles and Tesla having under a million. Bet on whichever horse you want, but this trend is not looking good for Waymo.
>It seems obvious to me
Oh thank goodness! Fortunately this style of argument has never been wrong before. ;)
If you really believe Pickle's claim so much and disbelieve OP's analysis so much, you should contact Pickle's CEO to get more info from him. Once you build more trust, you should join the CEO and take on OP's bet.
Pickle's capability claims don't even need to be true for OP's "analysis" to still be extremely factually incorrect on many levels. Also I consider gambling to be on the balance a bad thing and have no desire to encourage it.
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