Has anybody made the jump from Data & Analytics consulting (implementation focused, less on strategy) into being a Solutions Architect/Engineer at a product company in the data space (thinking something like Databricks, Snowflake, Looker, etc.)? How would you describe the difference between those roles? Pros/cons?

Hiya! I was wondering if anyone here has any good recommendations in terms of books or learning material that I can pick up to learn about sales and marketing relevant to the consulting industry?

Any advice for someone looking to transition into a full HR Generalist role from Recruiting. I’m currently a Campus Recruiter with about 5 years of HR experience (Coordinator- Higher Ed). I received my PHR certification in September 2020 and sitting for my SHRM-CP in two weeks. I’m having a hard time transitioning into a full Generalist position.

wisdom on getting promoted to mid-level at the same agency? I’d hate to leave but I’m coming up on 3 years of (real) experience & my agency is known to have CDs come in as seniors so I’m pessimistic

Why are we as a group not so active in helping each other ? I understand there are many members who joined with aspirations to learn DS. But existing members from DS are not active. Sad sorry

Looking to pivot out of a top pharma marketing/ad agency and into consulting. Ultimately want to leverage both experiences to move client side or to a healthcare start up.

What are the best firms for this type of transition and why?

Did you choose to work in the private sector or academia? Why?

Boston Consulting Group , is GAMMA Solution Track a good role ? I got Offer Solution Lead , but not sure about that track. I have not been able to find anything and it seems pretty new// PLEASE HELP! I dont want to make the wrong decision...

@Boston Consulting Group

Hi! I’m looking into pivoting my career as more “brand” specialist/ manager. What skill sets would you find crucial to know ? Any advice on tips to learn/ gain experience? Thank you!

What are the cheapest study materials to study for the CFE? I didn’t want to pay out 1k+ for the prep course from ACFE.

I’ve worked for many companies involving creative traditional/digital artwork, but my last job threw my health under the bus, so now my current has very little creative work and work with databases..

My question is: what was the thing that helped you get back into a creative job?

Revamping your resume? Personal projects? Starting your own company?

I feel like there are so many doors that are open I just lose steam haha.

Is it ok to switch to Big data tech stack like Hadoop, Hive, Python after 7 years of experience from .Net technologies ? Which of the two field is good for long term perspective.

Hello professionals, I am currently working in Supply chain development as SQE with over 8years of experience, but I want to switch over to software developments . I have knowledge on C, C#. As i would be a fresher in the software field, Can you suggest any opportunities as to what I can look out for, and what would be the salary for the fresher level.@

I have an interview with McKinsey - Senior Associate, the role pays 50k more than my current role. (3YOE)
I have no consulting experience nor do I have an MBA. Somehow I’ve passed the first 3 stages and I am now onto the case study interviews.
Has anyone went from product management into consulting, is it worth it, Am I making a mistake? (London, UK)

I just accepted a corporate counsel role with a large Fortune 500 company. Any advice or thoughts on make the transition from a firm to in house?

How did you decide what field of law enforcement you wanted to be in?

I’m a CFP® and work as a test engineer for financial planning software. I’m pretty new to the tech space, and wondering what jobs might be out there in the fintech space as I gain more software knowledge. It’s kind of niche working in financial planning software as my background is financial planning. What kind of jobs are out there that might translate well and would have good earning potential?

Boston Consulting Group , is GAMMA Solution Track a good role ? I got Offer Solution Lead , but not sure about that track. I have not been able to find anything and it seems pretty new// PLEASE HELP! I dont want to make the wrong decision...

@Boston Consulting Group

Hello & hope all is well. I am reaching to request any assistance with a PwC referral for the remote Provider Operations-Director position. Please let me know if you can help. TIA.

Which are the top consulting firms in the region after MBBK , heard strategy& has a really bad culture so exclude that too?

Can we all collectively come together to help IBM find a true match?

@IBM. What are you looking for? What has worked and what has not worked in the past? And please provide any other information you believe would be relevant and helpful for all of us to know.

Hi! I’m looking into pivoting my career as more “brand” specialist/ manager. What skill sets would you find crucial to know ? Any advice on tips to learn/ gain experience? Thank you!

Delivered Mindtree laptop today, can we use this laptop for our uses like learn online, play YouTube, netflix and all after office hours?

Hello IBMers,
IBM has offered me X amount ctc and i accepted it on portal....now got to know that market valuation for 10.3 yoe is greater than offered ctc....can i ask HR to increase the ctc and change the band...will they consider it?...not holding any counter offer as of now

CTO or VP technology (14yrs total exp) for machine learning AI computer vision products. Any hiring on this ..let me know

Anyone working for Oracle Cerner / Cerner Corporation and can provide a referral?

Do you drink at holiday parties? This is the first company I've worked for that does a real holiday party and I'm kind of anxious about letting my guard down around my co-workers like that...

How do you make connections at weddings when you barely know anyone? I feel like it’s always awkward smalltalk and at some point you’re just drunk and wanna go home.

Hi Fishes,
Salesforce making any change to the work location flexibility once offices are re-opened? Support roles are Hyd based why other locations cannot be utilised?

Hi Fishes,
I have joined Salesforce past week, Can anyone suggest which cloud to join (Sales, Service or Experience cloud).

Thanks

I have mostly digital and earned work in my portfolio, but recently worked on a product-forward TVC. Not the most groundbreaking, but feel like TVC experience would help round out my book. Worth adding?

What are the cheapest study materials to study for the CFE? I didn’t want to pay out 1k+ for the prep course from ACFE.

I’m 24, new to the stock market and make ~90k a year, how much of my income should I have in stocks? (Not including 401k)

Is there a good online course on storytelling with data? Something that can help structure your thought process and design choices when creating visualizations and Dashboards in Tableau, Power BI etc.

Business practice: "can you guys build a model that overlays where Coronavirus is going to break out with client sites"

Hello, Anyone here from Deloitte Omnia AI who could refer me for an open opportunity.

What would you choose between palantir and a small startup with great growth opportunities?

I am currently working mostly in Data Analytics, but I want to transition into Data Engineering. I've applied to a couple Data engineer positions but it seems I don't have the qualifications for them. Should I maybe look for Jr. Data Engineer positions to get experience and try to move up from there? If so anybody know of any Jr. Data Engineer positions available?

Are there RPA use cases in data work?

Any cyber security folks here? or those interested in systems engineering? Potential role with TC 120-180, awesome team and wlb, at least compared to consulting.

Meeting with a recruiter at one of the FAANG companies. I won’t be able to move jobs because of H1b /GC at least for the next year. Any idea if I should start off with that or should I just try to understand the work that they have been doing?

What's the best way to compare the similarity of text between a smaller set of documents with a larger set of documents? Therefore, two vectors of vastly different sizes.

Hi fishes, can you guys share your favorite websites to look for remote job? To look for start up companies? TIA :)

Best analytics tools to learn? Know Alteryx but I've heard people say they don't consider it an advanced analytics tool

Anyone have any suggestions for front end guis for users to run python code? I’ve created a few tools for webscraping data, automation, and modeling but non technical users freak out when they try to run the code themselves. Any suggestions? (Have tried Juypter Notebooks and a few other IDEs)

To all my data engineering friends out there, do you all feel like trash sometimes? Like people dont understand shit about what you do, and clients just want to see some bs ml model/pretty but useless dashboards?

I am finishing up a project and I’m trying to document what I’ve done for my resume. What are some good metrics for someone who mainly created user stories, created dashboards, interacted with the client and developed statistical models? One of my dashboards got deployed to production but it’s to early to see the impact. My other dashboards are almost done but I’m moving on to something else.

How does everyone in this bowl feel towards master’s degrees in data science/analytics? I didn’t study this in undergrad so I’m looking to get an analytics degree but I’ve heard mixed reviews.

Do any of the top consulting firms have analytics roles (preferably not super technical) that don’t require weekly travel?

If you were to hang your own shingle as a consultant what BI tool would you use to deliver dashboarding to clients?

Assume that you aren’t plugging in to source systems as I primarily work in CDD.

does anyone else feel pressured to go to grad school if they want to become a data scientist after analytics consulting?