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Banks are a good training ground. Should do it.
Best move for junior peeps is to a small cyber consulting firm. Get exposure to a lot of different areas. It’ll set you up with a solid foundation for the future.
Probably best to start a new thread asking the exit ops bowl as well as cyber bowl. I don’t know about the culture or anything at places like fire eye, crowd strike and those guys.
Maybe check out Optiv. Slalom also does cyber, but mostly cloud focused. Be sure to ask about the type of projects in their pipeline and be honest about your goals. Smaller firms have a hard time getting cyber work as there’s no brand recognition.
A lot of my former team members moved to banks after 1-2 years at the firm.
So senior to mid management
Highly dependent upon team. They’ll pay you well out of the gate but don’t expect it to move much. Career trajectory can get pretty grey at VP+.
What teams are doing interesting stuff? I’m not very familiar with their cyber teams structure.
VP is probably the ceiling for most cyber people in banks. However pay, brand name and tech being used are probably among the best if not the best within the various industry verticals (excluding tech itself).
VP is closer to senior manager in terms of salary. There is no direct comparison in terms of responsibilities as a job in industry is very different than a job in consulting. Getting pigeonholed can happen in consulting also. The assumption you make is common across junior people in this job but more often that not it happens to work for the same client and same project for several months and even years, especially if you are doing implementation or managed services projects (strategy projects are by nature shorter).