Consulting
Any engineers in consulting here? How do you feel working in consulting being an engineer. Do you feel like you are underutilized when it comes to application of the engineering knowledge.
I went from engineering to management consulting after an MBA. Engineering develops your problem solving and structured thinking skills, very handy in consulting. The technical knowledge itself is really applicable in very technical roles like software development or architecture
No, because IT consultant 😁
A bit
It honestly depends on your skillset and the project you are working on
I don’t feel under utilized and I like the unique position I’m in to be client facing but also also to project management and lead a dev/engineering team
You get to apply tech for Solving real world problems. I am not from Deloitte or E&Y, but get to perform technology and business consulting. As part of this, use my engineering skills to do contextual PoC That will solve client problems
Depends on the project.
I am in Tech consulting. Got into this after engineering and MBA. I do use my engg skillsets for problem solving. But I also feel that anyone trained in atleast 1 programming language/platform can pick up things pretty quickly. I am not good at BSing so sometimes a person who can BS more without the knowledge n degree gets the benefit of doubt. That's where I feel my engineering degree is undermined.
Your response is adorably misinformed. Engineering doesn't require physical builds. I'm a chemical engineer and all of my work is simulations. Can't just go throwing radioactive material around all willy nilly
Even internal consulting in tech is mostly business talk and simple solutions. I don't imagine life at the firms is any more technical