Pay and offers
Why some FDE jobs pay OTE: what on-target earnings mean for an engineer
Why some FDE postings state pay as OTE, what on-target earnings mean for an engineer, and the questions to ask about the variable part before you accept.
The FDE interview blog, page 9
Narrow, sourced articles on forward deployed engineer interviews. Each one links to the guide it belongs to, and every fact in it names its source.
Posts 97 to 100 of 100.
Interview rounds
Why your SQL revenue is too high: finding and fixing join fan-out in an interview
A one-to-many join quietly inflates revenue. How to catch join fan-out with a row count, fix it at the right grain and explain the bug to a customer.
Preparation
Your FDE onsite is next week: how to spend the days you have
The invite came and you have days, not weeks. A diagnostic for the first day, then a day-by-day split across cases, coding, your project and stories.
The FDE role
Your first three months as a forward deployed engineer: what employers describe and a plan that earns trust
What employers say about FDE onboarding, a plan for your first three months, and how to turn it into your interview answer.
Start with a guide
Every post belongs to a longer guide. Each guide covers its topic whole.
- The decomposition interview: how to break down a vague customer problem
- The forward deployed engineer interview, round by round
- The forward deployed engineer resume
- Forward deployed engineer salary: what employers post and file
- Forward deployed engineer vs sales engineer
- Forward deployed engineer vs software engineer
- Forward deployed engineer vs solutions architect
- What is a forward deployed engineer?