It appears many tech related employees here have a bad taste towards consulting. Primarily because of WLB and long hours? (which is not the case) I'm working at a mid tier firm similar to Slalom, Taos, Sourced Group, Onica. I've seen many people in these firms working 40hr, maybe 45....<5yoe making 170-200k base. I'm lost at why tech and related larger companies appear to think consulting and overworked hours is the norm #consulting
Because they come into companies and offer nothing while charging a lot of money.
Because they were bullied in school by the cool kids who became consultants. 🤷♂️
I think consulting gets a negative narrative because people are usually referring to MBB when talking about the industry, and for that group specifically WLB is pretty poor (not as bad as banking) but 70 to 80 hours a week doing meaningless work
I worked in consulting and out of all of the companies you listed, I've only heard of Slalom. Speaks volumes. Plus, lots of folks aren't even staffed on actual consulting roles...they're staff augmentation. No one is making 170-200 base there with less than 5 years of experience, unless they're incredibly specialized.
Does the brand recognition even matter if your making this salary? I'm one of those around the 170-200 range with little less than 5yoe, we're professional services, so a variation of Cloud consulting and staff Aug. Is staff Aug really that bad? I've seen plenty Big4 do staff Aug at companies. As for specialization, that's true. I'm specialized in Devops
Staff aug is useless for your career.