Yeah, I am a bit rough on sales, but it is critical to doing business. And a good saleman is a wonderful find, talking with someone who is knowledgeable and honest about the product is great.
You're littering via middle school group stereotypes for professions.
You're walking it back a bit by saying you're a bit rough on sales, but what you actually wrote is engineers are bad at sales.
Sales engineer is a well-populated role, and they do their jobs as expected.
On average, an engineer will be worse at sales than a "pure salesman", but that's simply specialization in action. Can't get better at what you don't have an opportunity to practice. We all can do pretty much whatever we want if we put our minds to it.
