Any advice from the group about making the move from B4 tech consulting hell to strategy? I feel like I work in a H-1B visa farm and despised because I'm a citizen.

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It's easy. B4 offices in India and China are looking for strategy consultants.

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I should mention that it's not really my colleagues that make me want to move, but the work is mindless and boring.

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Never felt this in DD

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@K1 I don't have any allusions about fulfillment via PowerPoint, I enjoy things like financial analysis and M&A type work as opposed to trudging through dirty databases looking for ways to cleanse them.

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OP, sorry, I am a bit confused. First you say you are in an H1B farm and feel despised, then you say it isn't the people, but the work that makes you want to move. Why talk about H1B farm in the first place? Even if it wasn't for the H1B folks, work would still remain the same?

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OP, I think a lot of people are on the same train as you. The best way is to just get an MBA from a good school. You will automatically be considered for strategy roles when you apply for consulting after that.

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OP: if people are speaking a different language than English during a design session, they should be fired. My native language is also not English but i think it is extremely disrespectful to the team. I feel for you. Some people just don't get how to adapt to a new environment.

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This is your country, how can you let anyone from the outside affect you to this degree? That just sounds not so smart. This is from someone on H1B

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^^ How come Strategy work purposeful and interesting on PowerPoint slides?

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lol get an MBA OP. I'm applying this year.

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@D3, I'm thinking that's my way out, thanks.

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Style for big 4 consultants by bringing down the profit margin. So if you are in IT, you are not a special worker anymore. To survive, big 4 IT started taking dirty jobs like database cleaning or whatever they can get.

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@K1, I agree there is interesting work out there- cognitive tech, IoT, blockchain, etc. it just doesn't seem like anyone is buying it. All that seems to be selling is ERP upgrades and data quality/cleansing/etc.

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I feel your pain OP!

Figure out what value you can bring to the strategy practice. We're not going to pick you up just because you want us to do so.

@D2, the work may be the same, but it doesn't help that most serious conversations between my colleagues regarding the solution occur in a language other than English, and none of my work is trusted by my foreign colleagues. I haven't ever had that issue before (on projects that had at most a handful of H1B consultants)

I hear this complain from many of our technology consultants when I go to our University for coaching our consultants. I guess most of our younger people join our company with a very high expectation that they will be asked to work as an IT strategy consultant. It was true years ago. Unfortunately, in last 10 years or so, H1-B companies forced to change the game / life

I think MBA is one way to get out of this.

OP: IT has many interesting work than database cleaning. I can assure you most of the progress in society in next few years will be brought over by tech folks. So you really need to find what you like. Having said that.. if financial analysis is something you want to do go for it. Just keep in mind most companies have in house strategy team. My understanding is that so many exMck Bcg folks are out there , that companies won't pay for strategy work anymore. I think thats why both MCK and BCG are getting into tech work.

What practice are you in? The projects I have worked on in DD are nothing like the above you mentioned

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