FT offers for Software engineering vs Consulting at OW
Hi! Very fortunate to be deciding between Oliver Wyman for consulting and a software engineering position at a large company. The SWE role is $10k higher in total comp, not including stock. Both roles are based out of DC and I am not sure what I want to do long term—would really appreciate any advice!
If you're not sure what you want to do long term, I'd take the SWE role with the higher base. If you're close to DC, total comp will be so crucial with such a high cost of living in that area.
What do you think you would enjoy about each position? Do you have experience in either? It's important to consider the positions and responsibilities as well as the compensation. You don't have to stick with either forever, but you do want to do what you can to ensure that this experience is a positive one to build your career on.
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First, congrats on getting these roles. My advice is to take the SWE role, but this is assuming all other factors are already taken into account (ex: Prestige, Growth, People, Culture, and others) and are equivalent to both the SWE role and OW.
SWE role is more about your hard skill in coding whereas consulting is more about a mix of soft (communication, project management) and hard (limited financial analysis, data analysis, excel) skills. It is easier to transition from a pure hard skill job to a mix skill job. Worst case after a year you don't like SWE then you can always try consulting again. I bet every consulting firm would be happy to recruit a former SWE onto their team. Best of luck with everything.
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Which one do you like more? Tech will always slap consulting but not if you don’t enjoy coding. If you do, think about how much more a FAANG will pay later down the line than MBB
Tech and don’t look back, consulting not worth it