Where to find engineers with customer experience?
I'm hiring for Customer Success Engineers and found it hard to find people who have technical skills and have experience/enjoy/are good at working with customers. Where do those people hang out?
Sales engineers fill a similar role. But they seem to be more focused on earlier prototypes to wow the customer during sales.
A lot of developers in “professional services” at product companies see and end to end implementation all the way through.
There’s also specialist software consultants, consulting usually requires a broad set of customer relation skills.
It's a common theme with startups. I'd say they're common with YC backed startups, because of the whole "do things that don't scale" philosophy. YC fans tend to hang around HN, so I suppose you're in the right place?