{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Top 10 SE Mistakes that Drive AEs Crazy","description":"So I\u2019ve been in sales for a while. A few years now, and I\u2019ve worked with several SE either as a sales person, a mentor, or a coach. And we love to joke around and talk crap about salespeople. I mentioned this before but on my first week on the job, I traveled to a quarterly training for both SEs and Sales. We had a common training session (marketing slides) and when that session was over and we were about to split up, my manager (SE manager) stood up and said \u201cSEs stay here, those who have a lobotomy go to the other room.\u201d That\u2019s how I was introduced to sales. It was a joke, and everyone laughed, but since then I knew I could make fun of salespeople because they do things that drive us crazy.  On the other hand, since I\u2019ve been in sales there are things that SEs do that also drive me personally nuts. In the last couple of weeks, I\u2019ve seen things that have made me so angry, I can see why AEs don\u2019t want to bring SEs into meetings. Here are 12 things SEs do that drive salespeople crazy.  ","author_name":"We The Sales Engineers: A Resource for Sales Engineers, by Sales Engineers","author_url":"http:\/\/wethesalesengineers.com","html":"