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90% of Solutions/Pre-sales Engineer postings (n=39) require prior pre-sales or SE experience, versus 0% of FDE postings, and only 1 of those 39 asks for production code.
value: 90% (FDE: 0%)method: Regex over full text of European customer-facing technical postings in public ATS boards (Databricks excluded)metric: Pre-sales experience required, SE postingsperiod: 26 Oct 2026sample_size: 39source_name: Own ATS scan (about 70 boards)