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Twenty-Sixth Google Cloud Jumpstart Session Recap: Informational Interview
This blog post is a continuation of the 25 thGCP session recap because I am conducting an informational interview with the GCP cloud engineer who works at my mentor’s company.
FYI — Informational interviews ARE NOT job interviews. Please don’t ask for a job in the middle of the informational interview!
Daily Job Responsibilities
Now that we’ve squared that away, I will continue with my informational interview. He starts talking about his job. He is a design sales engineer who does both pre-sales and post-sales. Pre-sale is convincing the client to work with you. Post-sales is providing them with the solutions (GCP in this case) to reach your client’s business goals. It is rare to do both pre-sales and post-sales.
He is more of a solutions architect where he comes up with the GCP products and services to meet his clients’ business goals. He is not an engineer or developer who codes and assembles the GCP solutions.
