Have to choose between Senior Manager (Tech Strategy) at a Big 4 vs. Principal PM at Microsoft.

Any thoughts on how the two levels equate and the career path?

After already having done consulting for last 7 years, my heart wants to pursue working at a big tech firm. However, have a clear path to partnership at this Big 4 consulting firm in 4 years.

Note: there’s a delta of almost 30-40K between what this Big 4 firm is paying vs. Microsoft

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If you truly have a clear path to big 4 partnership (and that is a big if) you will almost certainly make far more in consulting.

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I have exit opportunities to go in on ED/MD track with path to partner.

If you deliver products that are valued consulting companies want to bring that in to sell to customers.

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Having been both I’d go with PPM but I ultimately decided that I didn’t want to go the partner route.

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That makes sense - thanks for the context!

what did you end up deciding?

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Who’s paying more big4 or MS?

Not for long, if you truly think you’ll make partner in 4.

Big4 if you wanna be partner

What level is the PPM at MS, 65/66?
68 at MS is the partner level btw.

It’s likely 64 - principal CSAM role

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