| Topic Name: |
technology background->consulting |
| Message Name: |
Strategy consulting not the way |
| Date Posted: |
01/09/2003 |
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Hi,
I'm a senior at an ivy, double majoring in math & CS. I've had a few selective CS internships with big companies, however I want to move into strategy or IT consulting. I completely missed the recruiting deadlines for all the big firms that my school offers--my question now is, am i lost? can i get an interview by networking with alums? I have excellent grades and scores, however my background is very technical. Also considering the economy it seems as though most firms got all their new hires through recruiting, and there aren't really any spaces left.
My second question concerns this: I eventually want to get into upper management at a tech company. One of the ways i see is to get a CS-software-coding job, and work my way up (possibly getting an MBA). The other way is through strategy consulting...Anybody know any other ideas? What if I were to go the first route, and get an MBA. Would strategy firms not look at me because I came from a software background?
thanks. |
| Message: |
to go if you want to get into upper management at a tech company. There are many ways to do that, but strat consulting is not one of them.
IT consulting may or may not work. On the plus side, you can get exposed to a number of different technologies and see a number of different businesses over a few years. On the minus side, they may shove you into the first "tech" role for which they need a warm body and voila -- you are a VB programmer for 18 months doing GUI report development. Check out the vault boards for Accenture, IBM BC, Deloitte, BearingPoint to see their gripes. Realize that vault is usually used for people to bitch, but that doesn't make them wrong.
If you really want to get technical fast, build software skills for a few years and then move in the management direction, I suggest you focus on a small to medium size company doing work related to the open source field. Pay will be low, but you will learn way, way more really fast than working for a big corporate monster (like MS).
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