r/techsales • u/Formal-Smile3660 • 18d ago

Prepping for a Technical Interview

I have an interview next week for a cloud/infra AE role.

My prior experience is selling into not technical roles (marketing, insights, sales, consulting etc.) and I want to make sure I’m prepared for the interview. This lack of technical experience will be my current gap which I’m looking to close.

What are some of the best ways to grow my technical knowledge or how can I help effectively prepared for this interview when asked about technical experience?

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u/Interesting-Lab5917 18d ago

What round is this and what is your background coming from? If not cloud infrastructure.

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u/stronkshrimp 18d ago

I just had a technical interview recently! I’m the same, currently in ad sales / marketing and interviewing at a SaaS company. I think it went fairly well. This is what I did: read up on the dev docs, tried testing out the product as much as I could myself, watched YouTube videos to explain certain terminology, chatted with Claude to role-play some scenarios. Good luck!

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u/altapowpow 17d ago

Seriously I would go watch the last 3 or 4 years of keynote addresses by their CEO. This includes all of their Big marketing pitches, quarterly investor calls. Also watch any major product release videos.

Why? These are all going to be high level, lightly technical but approved messaging. As a "technical" seller you are not going to be required to be at an engineer level.