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Thanks for this answer! Do you think there are opportunities to get this kind of experience outside of a consultancy?

• CuriouslyC 11y ago
  Early stage start-up job hopping would work as well. Unfortunately, software architecture is really more of an art than a science, and a lot of it hinges on intuition built from experience. The problem with trying to emulate this kind of experience by working on side projects is that A: you need to get experience predicting changes in end user requirements during design and B: you really need to take the project to completion to identify pain points in terms of application architecture. Since side projects are typically a scratch-your-own-itch kind of thing, and tend to be smaller, you don't really get either of these.