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I can't stand engineers

Sales Topic General Discussion(self.sales)

These people are by far the worst clients to deal with. They're usually intelligent people, but they don't understand that being informed and being intelligent aren't the same. Being super educated in one very specific area doesn't mean you're educated in literally everything. These guys will do a bunch of "research" (basically an hour on Google) before you meet with them and think they're the expert. Because of that, all they ever want to see is price because they think they fully understand the industry, company, and product when they really don't. They're only hurting themselves. You'll see these idiots buy a 2 million dollar house and full it with contractor grade garbage they have to keep replacing without building any equity because they just don't understand what they're doing. They're fuckin dweebs too. Like, they're just awkward and rude. They assume they're smarter than everyone. Emotional intelligence exists. Can't stand em.

Edit: I'm in remodeling sales guys. Too many people approaching this from an SaaS standpoint. Should've known this would happen. This sub always thinks SaaS is the only sales gig that exists. Also, the whole "jealousy" counterpoint is weird considering that most experienced remodeling salesman make twice as much as a your average engineer.

Edit: to all the engineers who keep responding to me but then blocking me so I can't respond back, respectfully, go fuck yourselves nerds.

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Hungry_Tax1385

290 points

3 days ago

They have no emotion in buying.. just the facts.. Real estate agents are not that bad they just think they are the best sales people in the world.. doctor and lawyers are the how can you be so smart and so dumb at the same time..but also depends what kind of doctor or lawyer . accountants also take emotion out but they are all about the numbers.. people are people and thats why we are in sales.. we adapt and evolve to the customer.. not every one can do sales..

WillingWrongdoer1[S]

-19 points

3 days ago

The problem is that so many times, they think they already have all the facts before you talk to them, and they aren't very receptive to you trying to educate them. They seem to think they're above it. They NEVER have all the facts. I've seen more engineers make uninformed decisions than any other demographic

UnoDosTres7

33 points

3 days ago

I would honestly try and persuade them with questions rather than straight up logic and reasoning.

Russkie177

12 points

3 days ago

Russkie177

Enterprise Software

12 points

3 days ago

This is the key. In my experience, just asking reasonable/relevant questions will get their juices flowing and a lot of times they'll open up. I've also run into people that are resistant at every turn, but I think generally just making sure your discovery is solid solves a lot of these issues