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career choice for engineer |
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engineers are smart! :) |
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02/19/2006 |
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You won't learn anything about business (other than a few things that anyone would get by working in the business world) here at Accenture. We are an IT deployment and IT integration services company. This is not some kind of business services or management consulting company.
As far as business majors (or any other majors) being dumb is concerned, I think what you mean is slightly ignorant, not dumb. All kids out of college, business majors, engineering majors, English majors, politcal science majors, etc. are still young and have a lot to learn. Since Accenture people are mostly kids only 3 or 4 years out of college (or less), they may SEEM dumb, but they are not.
Also, just because an engineering major may not have the critical skills to understand symbolism in a Shakepeare play or the business acumen to grasp the subtleties between a revenue and sale (while an English major or a business major might know) doesn't make him dumb. Engineering students have their own abilities which they focus on. I don't think Engineering students are any less intelligent than other students. Also, I'm sure that once they get some experience, the typical Accenture student might prove to be just about as bright as the typical person at any other company.
So your evaluation of the brain power of the young folks who work here is a bit unfair. |
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... I think you'll find that the average engineer has a sufficient grasp of matehmatics to understand any business metrics.
Engineering is all about modelling: sticking numbers on things, finding the relationships between those numbers and then using the model to make estimates and design a control system in order to make the system perform as expected.
You can easily extrapolate this approach to the business World.
EVen if Accenture is not full on strat - there is still the problem of managing complex IT Implemenation projects which is a sufficient challenge to tickle any engineer.
I will qualify what my learned friend said:
engineers are trained to engineer - so they feel obliged to, umm engineer.
*other* grads are trained in area with no direct vocational mapping, and are thus faced with the challenge "what the hell am i gonna do?" So what do they do: head off to these big shiny generic roles in consultancyfirms and make mega bucks, while us engineers are left behind with a soldering iron.
Leave your white coat at home: put on a nice suit and head out with your laptop into the World, make a few bux.
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