If you must work for a consulting firm, go work for ThoughtWorks (I am an ex employee) . Developers get respect, decent projects(as far as consulting/enterprise

If you must work for a consulting firm, go work for ThoughtWorks (I am an ex employee) . Developers get respect, decent projects(as far as consulting/enterprise sw) is decent) , great colleagues, roles are fluid, 8small* (but awesome) company etc. Like all companies TW has its dark side, but it is mostly methodology/language fan boism, not much backstabbing politics. If you like writing "deep" code, avoid consulting and get into something that interests you (for me it was MAchine Learning and AI) or work for or build a startup. Good Luck.