| Topic Name: |
Question about different consulting roles |
| Message Name: |
GTC |
| Date Posted: |
03/17/2006 |
| In Reply To: |
I just graduated college with a Masters in computer science from a top 10 american university. I am being offered a job by accenture and am being specifically targeted for GTC. I've been told i can also start in business consulting If i take a 7K pay cut.
My salary offer is 67K plus 5K bonus which is about average for my graduating class. The job is in NYC.
I have heard from alot of people that accenture employees do tons of coding and documentation. Is this what i am signing on for if i join GTC? Will i do any high level work? I had been hoping for more of a business consulting role but i've been told that even business consultants end up coding and running test scripts. What can i expect from the job with GTC? with business consulting? Does anyone have any insights as to the differences? Is it worth the 7K pay jump to go to GTC?
I have another comparable offer from a defense contractor and a financial firm (for their IT services). I can do the technical stuff but i would like to get my MBA down the line and move on to more business oriented roles. Any thoughts? I know its alot of questions but answering any of them would be really helpful. Thank you in advance. |
| Message: |
GTC (used to be GACT which used to be GIST) is a group inside the company that focuses on specific technologies. They are the least business oriented group and usually join an engagement to supplement the team members from the OGs. Sometimes they manage parts of the engagement, too.
There are the core technologies people and applications architecture people (two groups in GCT).
The core tech people specialize in networking, database administration, UNIX administration, hardware configuration, etc. The app architecture group specialize in decision support applications (bus intell, CRM, etc.), content management, etc.
"Business Consulting" is an entirely different part of the company with it's own hiring and internal administration. People generally don't jump from the main line side of the company (IT) to the management consulting side or vice versa. The "Consulting" word on our website's CONSULTING * TECHNOLOGY * OUTSOURCING blurb refers to the 4 or 5% of the client-facing work done by this group. Strat consulting is one of the 5 subgroups within the management consulting group, but it's the largest of the 5, making up almost 40% of that group (or approx. 1 1/2% of the client facing work done by ACN).
|
|
