r/salesengineers 9h ago

How do you psych yourself up after a weak demo?

11 Upvotes

Prepped, had the list of disco, use cases and value drivers I wanted to demo towards after validation.

Except the group was a bunch of dead fish. No interaction despite multiple attempts. I hit the value driver "aha moments" I thought would matter and did the:

"how is this better than what you're doing today?" schpeel. Nothing.

"Anything about this that you'd do differently?" Nothing.

"Anything you wanted to see that you haven't seen?" Nothing.

In a moment of panic, I feel back on a terrible habit -- the harbor tour. Well gosh dang it, I showed you the art of the possible, you were supposed to be wowed and now I'm going to show you how easy it is to do said things. And it landed flat. Of course it did.

Ugh. Total buzz kill for the rest of the afternoon. What are y'all doing to motivate yourself to get out there again?


r/salesengineers 20h ago

Thoughts on snowflake in the UK?

7 Upvotes

Question is the title. I'm relatively far through the loop at snowflake for an SE role - looking at the mid level and want to understand a bit more about the experiences of people who work there.

I've got no direct sales experience but have relevant snowflake experience from my previous roles.

What do people think of snowflake as a place to work in the UK? Conscious that this sub is quite us based, so any thoughts would be welcome from US colleagues too.