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career choice for engineer |
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Business! |
| Date Posted: |
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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for accenture doing so little management, they sure have a lot of managers.
my original post was addressing someone who said that the fresh grad would lose all his engineering insight. my point was that he doesn't have any - he just graduated. i'm just trying to keep things in perspective, like you Finance and Advice GuyS, who have the ability to pick up on anything.
a business degree is the path of least resistance. in many schools, you could be undeclared for 2 years, decide on business, and still be out in another 2. i mean, come on. but it was still hard, between the frat hazing and drug use, i bet you were challenged.
i never said anything about how an engineering major can't grasp symbolism. they can, it's common sense what i did say was that engineers were trained to do their job, whereas business majors were trained to get ahead. i like your rant, but i think you posted it under the wrong topic.
i also never said that people just out of college were dumb. i said business majors were. you have made up the rest of it. again, i like what you wrote, but ultimately it is useless here.
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