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What is the culture like, type of work and reputation of Capco in the Data & Analytics space?
I have some good ex colleagues who moved over there and also looked up on LinkedIn and see lots of seemingly smart and accomplished people in their D&A team in the UK.
I'll ask my ex colleagues too, but wanted to see if people here have any opinion or information on this too.
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Hmmm. I used to work on the business side of big law and it has crossed my mind a few times. The one deterrent for me is how much of my experience will be discounted if I decided to pursue it. You’ll have to start off as a trainee and Y1 associate and although your transferable skills will be useful especially if you qualify into a practice that is relevant to your commercial experience, you still can’t quite leverage that much. Also I think law is heavily glamourised. A lot of people only stay because they’re locked into a specific life style that only a big law career can pay for. Lawyers are also not technical and they specialise so they generally have few options outside of in-house legal which pays less. Depending on what you’re doing at Meta and what kind of experience you have, I’d consider other options
Great insights, thanks for sharing. I definitely have a habit of glamourising prestige and money above concretely working the kind of hours expected.
Used to be a law student with an option to go into big law but didn’t. I think at a graduate level it’s worth considering but not when you’re into a career already. A lot of my uni friends went into big law, but nearly none want to work in firm practice forever. They will all switch to in house legal jobs within a few years due to unsustainable hours and take the pay cut.
The salaries are good but it’s extremely exposed to AI. GPT is already very good at contracts.
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Yeah totally esp reviewing and drafting contracts 😂 most lawyers or legal professionals use AI day to day to do that already…
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Not to mention that law is boring 😂 it’s mostly a writing job without any need to think critically.