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technology background->consulting |
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hmmm |
| Date Posted: |
01/19/2003 |
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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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This directly contradicts other advice I've gotten...I got the impression that a lot of people stay in consulting for a few years, then go back for an MBA, and then get jobs managing companies, slowly working their way up. Is this not true?
One worry I have is getting "stuck" in the software engineer track.
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