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Making sense of different (Management) Consulting Firms & Specialties

I'm currently in sales at a SaaS company and have been looking to make a career change into (Management) Consulting. Through my research, it seems that there are a lot of subcategories under the "Management" Consulting umbrella, between which the definition/relevance of management consulting seems t

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Oct 12, 2022

4th SWE YOE Birthday WOOHOO. Eng Leaders w/ 20+ YOE, what advice do you have?

Celebrating my 4th YOE since day 1 of my internship. Couldn't be happier. Thought I'd spread the positivity on Blind. SWE is a HARD career path. You should all be so proud of yourselves for making it. You've got to navigate the most unusual career landscape of any profession I know. I'm so pro

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Jan 28

Career Advice : DevSecOps vs Cloud Platform Engineer vs Solutions Architect vs Development Manager type roles

Hi everyone, need a little bit of advice on how market myself and what would be a better career direction to take for future at this stage of my career !! - TIA Current Total Comp: About 155K (in Texas) Total YOE in IT: 17 years - Initial 5 years: Consulting and Tech Services for Clients, - Next

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Dec 3, 2022

Interview Prep & Career Direction

So I have 9 years of work ex in an Indian Tech consulting company. After 9.5 years I realized I am extremely underpaid and have barely developed decent skill set(IBM BPM & UiPath - Both jokes). Since I wanted to stay in US, I decided to do masters. I will be graduating soon and want to get into FAAN

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Apr 4, 2022

How to become a non-tech Product Manager at Google?

I have a total 14 years of product management, P&L management (retail e-commerce) experience across few big corporations (not FAANG) and have been always amazed by Google’s products and vision. However, I am not a computer science graduate (have masters in engineering from a reputed university but n

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Sep 26, 2022

Competing offers: non-profit open-source vs. consulting firm (not Big 4)

Two offers, both received today. Could use some advice. The org growth trajectories are very similar, and I love the idea of having a hand in the workflow and process management of each new department arm. 1. Non-profit in open-source tech TL;DR: Title higher than current role, salary lateral, bene

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Apr 20, 2022

New Grad: $55k Full-Stack Role vs $110k Infrastructure Engineer. Career Advice Needed!

May 2023 new grad here, in a dilemma. Currently a full-stack SWE at a tech consulting company in Dallas making $55k. I enjoy the work but not the location and definitely not the money. SWE is what I've wanted to be but I also enjoy DevOps / Cloud Computing as I've had internship experience in that.

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Sep 24, 2023

Want to stay but don't see a path forward

I'm currently in corporate strategy. My "brand" centers around my Math degree and history as a Bain consultant: I can solve business problems at scale with coding & data visualization software, and can also get buy-in from data scientists because I speak their language. While I came from consulting

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Oct 31, 2022

14 YoE at Wipro and finance co. What role at FANG?

Posting for a friend who's company is too lame to be in this lounge. A friend of mine wants to move to a FANG company. She has about a year of experience as an engineering manager at a major US financial company and the rest as an engineer there and some time at a consulting company like Wipro. Sh

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Oct 31, 2018

What is considered competitive pay in Toronto?

I left my role as a management consultant to be a tech strategy manager. I was making 65k lol. I thought I was getting paid well in my new role - however, with the current housing market I am beginning to doubt if this is even a good salary. I recognize ‘good’ is subjective but I’m curious to see i

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Jan 25, 2022

Red Flags - Ijaz Group, LLC

I joined Ijaz Group LLC, as a Consultant- Accounting and Finance for a small start-up firm operating within a niche of the nonprofit sector. Here's what they failed at, despite aiming high: - Failed to get market research on similar compensation packages, and didn't bother to get their pay-scales

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Jun 5, 2022

Is 95k USD per year in USA on H1B visa is sufficient for a family of 2 when you already earning 40 LPA INR in India

Hi Blinders, I am a full stack Java developer with 9+ years work experience in India. I got an offer from an Indian consulting company with H1B VISA sponsorship and they are offering a package of 95k USD per year. They have a surety bond of 15 months service with them in USA on this same compensati

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Mar 5, 2023

How far should I be in my career?

I got my new job here at Walmart earlier this year as a mid level swe (SDE 3 in Walmart terms L4/SDE2 everywhere else) and I have roughly 4 years of experience total as of today. I don’t feel like I’m at the level of “senior engineer” and doubt that I’ll get L5 equivalent in large tech companies sin

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Nov 1, 2022

Interviewing in 🇮🇳

I have never worked in India as a techie. Been in the US working for 10y and planning to move to India with my family. I have my pd in 2016 eb2. How difficult are tech interviews in India? We are looking to live in Hyderabad. We have family and I own properties there. I am not looking to earn top t

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May 21, 2023

Technical Consulting to.... what?

I never learned DS&A, no CS degree but I'm a smooth talker and been able to keep up with SWE TC here in the midwest generally (~150k). However looking around now post-covid at the open jobs from companies in CA/Startups there aren't really roles like that, certainly not at those high TCs. My experi

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Dec 7, 2021

AWS TC Question - L5 Bus Dev Roles

Hey guys, looking to understand what TC range(s) I should aim for. Looking at two different opportunities within Bus Dev at AWS and have been chatting with either hiring mgr or recruiter: 1. Technical Business Development Manager - Cloud Migration and Modernization (1459724) 2. Cloud Financial Mana

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Aug 10, 2021

Audit at Big 4 - to venture out or not.

Hoping for some helpful advice here and thanks in advance. I’ve been in audit for ten years now, based in Vancouver. I didn’t know too much about different career paths back in the day but subsequently learnt about pathways that are more appealing to me, primarily strategy consulting and certain ca

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Sep 23, 2020

Seeking Advice from Senior PMs

Here is my situation: I have 12 YOE in IT Consulting and Delivery. COVID changed my circumstances and forced me to move to US. Neither had H1B nor ton of money so took admission in a 2nd tier university in a 1-year course. Aim is to move into the product space. I have mostly been in client facing

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Nov 13, 2021

Where to go now?

I left my home country to find better opportunities. From a young age I knew that my country was struggling financially (thank you hyperinflation). Remote working was the way to go for me even before COVID. I started coding for fun at 14, doing machine learning consulting at 16 and saving money to

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Sep 10, 2021

Embedded Specialist looking to move

Asking for an acquaintance. He's currently a senior manager at a major hardware (tooling) company, leading a couple teams (and managers). ~4 years there, with almost 20 years before that as an IC (with some lead positions) firmware/embedded software engineer at various places. Basically an expert

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Sep 24, 2018

Need Career Advice

I’m backend developer with 4 years of experience, worked mostly in seed startups, building their entire products from scratch, from 0 to 1. And I’m pretty good at it. Now I got an offer from a MNC consultant firm, to do consulting for a big MNC company. And I also got some offers from seed startups

Oct 29, 2022

Advice needed for making the next move

Hi All, 7 months ago I switched from one consulting company into another consulting company. I was attracted to the new role because the the new role had the promise of “building startups from the ground up”. While the move has made work significantly better , I still find myself looking for more

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Nov 15, 2021

Capgemini offer DS

Data Scientist who is getting an offer + signing bonus for Capgemini First time I'm doing this with a major consulting company 1) Got dinged on my FAANG interviews but did proceed to final round/vonsites on some. Felt very close on some, and thought I could get it, but alas didn't happen. Workign

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Apr 26, 2022

How do I move on from a rut to a better position (India)?

I work as a contractor mainly taking care of data engineering and backend services.I stuck out in the current job because of job security during the pandemic last year. Due to budget cuts projects have been taken away from my vendor and I am in a tight spot. I have started giving interviews and got

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Jan 28, 2021

How to find who’s a Hiring Manager?

Hey Blind fam, CS undergrad from a tier 1 college, currently working as a Product Mgr at EY. Leetcoding hard and aiming to switch to SWE within next couple months. I’d really appreciate advice on how best to find and connect directly with Hiring Managers. For a couple of reasons which I’m happy to

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Apr 7, 2021

Do I quit my job next summer?

Wrote for a catchy headline, but there's some truth in it. I need some advice. I have been working in government consulting as a UX Strategist for one year and ...don't love it. My company takes good care of their employees for the most part but I don't find the work fulfilling. I never stopped app

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Jul 24, 2023

Change Corporate standard

Ok… so to all the people that worked hard at Faang and amassed all types of insane skills.. I have a question why don’t we all start a company that looks out for the benefit of all of us. No greed allowed, the goal is for everyone to obtain 1-5mill. Accenture and all the consulting firms have over 1

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Jan 20, 2023

Referrals please, I need out asap

I worked at the SDC for EY for 1 year, I worked as a quality assurance analyst (aka testing) I needed to move for family, and they wouldn't allow remote so I quickly found a different role. I got one at a start up and that was such a mess, I spent two years there doing project management work but tr

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Sep 10, 2021

Career path from ServiceNow developer to SWE

Hi Everyone, I have been developing on the ServiceNow platform for about 5 years now, and I write mostly in Javascript. Even though the pay is decent and the job itself isn't hard, I find myself losing interest in it. ServiceNow makes it really easy to develop on their platform and their main focus

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Dec 2, 2021

Consulting - BO: Cloud Engineering - Consultant - Kotlin

#engineering #software #cloudengineering Our Cloud Engineering team focuses on enabling our client’s end-to-end journey from On-Premise to Cloud, with opportunities in the areas of: Cloud Strategy, Op Model Transformation, Cloud Development, Cloud Integration & APIs, Cloud Migration, Cloud Infrastru

Sep 27, 2023

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AIM Consulting Discussions

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Making sense of different (Management) Consulting Firms & Specialties

4th SWE YOE Birthday WOOHOO. Eng Leaders w/ 20+ YOE, what advice do you have?