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Fiverr for the corporate world with 100x pricing.

• screwturner68 4y ago
  They are like moles, they start with one or two and then they multiply until they are everywhere. They don't do much but you can't get rid of them.
  • jackdh 4y ago
    Having worked there in the past this can be the view from the outside. My anecdotal evidence is that those small starter teams do deliver alot of value, of which the client likes and wants more of. However the client does not have the resources to do this themselves (Likely the reason ACN are there to start). Then from here it's self-fulfilling, more people leads to more projects leads more resources.
    • creshal 4y ago
      And usually, the client has money for TVCs but not enough internal resources due to dysfunctional management hierarchies. Those same hierarchies will then inevitably fail to make proper use of the contractors, just as they failed to make use of their employees, leading to seemingly "useless" TVCs "bloating" the org. Symptom rather than cause of the client's failings.
    • candiddevmike 4y ago
      The consulting playbook for these companies is bring in a rockstar team at or below cost for an initial project. Blow the client's mind with velocity and quality, then scope out of a bunch of follow on work using the highest margin, cheapest offshore resources they can find.
• tootie 4y ago
  I worked in boutique tech services for a long time and have overlapped with Accenture a few times. You are correct. Some of the smartest and most effective people work in consulting. The kind of people who can swoop in to a random company, size up their operations in a few weeks and spit out an actionable plan that really works. None of those kind of people work at Accenture. They employ the "1000 monkeys at a 1000 typewriters" approach to problem solving. Even before their big push offshore they used to land hundreds of liberal arts grads into a tech enterprise and ask them to just figure stuff out and bill as many hours as possible.
  • cognaitiv 4y ago
    Not enough people, especially on this site realize this when they generalize about consultants being lazy, stupid, parasitic, etc. - the majority of the folks in SV could never cut it at an elite boutique consultancy. That said, consulting at an elite level doesn’t scale well, the equity multiples aren’t good and the lifestyle is a grind at best and mentally and physically unhealthy at worst.
    • bigDinosaur 4y ago
      It's a generalisation, and largely true unless you actually grant Accenture and co. 'elite' status.
    • makestuff 4y ago
      Does it pay better than FAANG? I can't imagine anyone wanting to do that for less money than they would make working at the companies they consult for.
      • rvba 4y ago
        Consulting is in a weird spot right now. It used to pay well and give good projects that allowed to get experience and nice exit opportunities (aka skip few years of usual career grind). Now lots of projects are uninteresting. There are still elite and specialized consultants who do complicated stuff but they are a minority. Often the teams now are just 'staff augmentation' - headcount outside of headcount. For programmers consulting never really made much sense anyway. Why sit at BIG4 company making slides when you can sit in FAANG coding? Consulting was always for finance guys. But now top finance guys go to investment banking, machine learning or (as funny as it sounds) crypto. There are still good projects with good exit opportunities in finance, but it is night and day when compared to 80s or 90s - when consultants were the true elite.. just because they could see how things are made in different companies. Now the companies blog how they do stuff.
        • tomrod 4y ago
          Cloud migration working as intended then?
• osigurdson 4y ago
  Fivehundredrr