<p>I’ve recently been offered and accepted a job at a major technology company that sells software and computer hardware (servers, power systems, and mainframes). At this particular company, they bring in sales engineers with a variety of educational backgrounds and give them the necessary product training (1 year of training). In fact, most of the people who interviewed me were not engineering majors at all. A majority majored in other STEM majors (chemistry, math, and even oceanography). I believe their philosophy is that they don’t expect you to be an expert in a certain field; rather, they look to see if you are competent enough to excel in a technical role and will then train you to get you to a level of expertise.</p>