Leave Salesforce Development for Consulting?
Does it make sense to leave Salesforce development for Accenture or Deloitte consulting? My situation: I hate development work, and actually feel very stressed in my job everyday cause I don’t want to code and have a lot of trouble with it. I tried switching to roles I would like, such as product management and program management, but it feels impossible to switch in the company. I am interviewing for Deloitte and Accenture and even the recruiters inquire why I want to leave Salesforce. I love the company, but just cannot be here as a developer anymore feeling so stressed. I want to stay in Salesforce and let my RSUs get used, but it feels impossible to switch my role. Is it a downgrade to go to consulting? YOE: 2 TC: 177k
TC in tech consulting with 2 YOE will not come close to what you’re getting now. Stay until your stock vests, then jump. Also focus on getting a high base when you jump. Accenture doesn’t give RSUs until SM level, Deloitte is privately held so no RSUs.
As someone who was once in consulting and now at salesforce. Personally, consulting will feel like you ain’t doing anything. It will be entering data into excel sheets and making decks. Also, I am hearing for the first time from you that it’s hard to make an internal move 🤔
It feels like that’s all I do now is sit around haha
Now I really doubt how we hire developers and should I leave ASAP...
Idk how you haven’t doubted this for awhile. Salesforce is very sluggish and slow. I’ve been in 4 clouds and see how lazy people are here.
Yeah... Even in my cloud a lot of things are the same. It's pretty sad
Change to black box tester at Salesforce
Saleforcers - what makes it hard to apply to a different org within your own company? Your dev experience is way sufficient to get a role within SF in PM. Can you share what’s the blocker for the role switch? If within isn’t an option, would your SF trailhead developer cert be helpful for a consulting role externally?
the blocker is they want PM experience, and I don’t have any. They’ll only view me as a dev and I feel trapped to the role. I’ve tried for a year to switch out and no opportunities allow me past the initial screenings.
Can you try some PM work as a side project (inside company or out) or work with the PM on your team to get some shadowing experience? Also sounds like you need allies to help pull you in. This would be the case pretty much anywhere unfortunately, not just SFDC bc you're asking the company to take a chance ob a complete unknown capability and train you. At this level, there just isn't much room for that.
Could you please describe what are consultants doing in your world?
The consultant roles are actually Salesforce consulting/implementation at the firms so it’s similar, but won’t be all development.