In a more that must have taken 1,000s of hours of consulting from the highest paid consulting companies in the world couple with countless hours of senior SE leadership all SE will get a new title. Yes with all that is around us SE leadership feels calling everyone a Solutions Engineer is much better! What a waste of breath.
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This is another step towards pooling.
This will be announced in the all hands tomorrow.
Honest question. What does TC do all day?
Sales Engineer
This move is insane. Some people spend decades working to move from engineer to architect. It's not just a label, it MEANS something. Architects design and engineers deliver. TSA's have spent years working and striving to reach that level, taking certifications and working hard to expose themselves to the business, and you're about to wipe all that effort away with one move. You're just about to demoralize hundreds of your most experienced and dynamic people by taking away what they've achieved. You're also removing a big target for others who're working to get there. Yes the whole "specialist" title has been ba----dized, but fix that. Yes there are bad architects out there, but the role isn't bad. Don't remove the architect distinction.
Architect means something, not only in Cisco. By taking away the architect role you're stunting people's mobility. You will encourage people to leave. Who knows, maybe that's the aim.
You're leaving the PA and DA job titles alone, probably because you don't want to upset your "golden geese", but those two roles are unachievable for most people. They're a popularity contest because they require sponsorship, and you've artificially limited the number of them that can exist through economic and political loopholes.
Please don't do this. Reconsider it before you take it to the business and it becomes embarrassing to wind it back
@OP+1p8MMY10 The machine has spoken. So, even the "Technical Solutions Architect" will be renamed to Solutions Engineer for all their sins? Even though they already have "Solutions" in their title?