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Interested in consulting? It gets knocked a lot on here as a profession, but you're constantly building on your technical core strengths to learn something new
by eastbayjake 5y ago
Interested in consulting? It gets knocked a lot on here as a profession, but you're constantly building on your technical core strengths to learn something new (business domains like agriculture or manufacturing, functions like digital marketing, etc) and because you're building within your clients' ecosystem you're also typically always learning something new technically. Constant S-shaped growth curve with lots of timeboxes as a forcing function. If you also enjoy helping people solve hard problems, it's quite rewarding beyond pure intellectual challenge.
- s1k3s 5y agoI’m not sure what you mean by consulting, but I can’t see any job ad for something like that. All of them are basically “we need an engineer to build this”, and in the end you show up on the job and it’s not different than the previous one. Can you share more details?
- eastbayjake 5y agoContracting != Consulting. There are roles at both big firms (McKinsey, BCG, Deloitte, Accenture) that deal with a broad set of technology issues across strategy and implementation, as well as smaller boutique shops focused on specific technology problems. Here's a representative job posting for a big firm: https://www.mckinsey.com/careers/search-jobs/jobs/softwarearchitect-mckinseydigital-17123 https://www.mckinsey.com/careers/search-jobs/jobs/softwarear...