My 5 year goal is to work at a fintech startup. I’ve been a tech strategy consultant for 2 years and a product manager at a SaaS company for 2 years,l. I’m now considering an offer to work on the credit card app at a large bank. This seems like the right choice to break into the industry and meet my goal. Would you all agree?

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Be very clear about what you'll be going there for. If it's experience with cutting edge tech, with agile orgs, great exposure to senior leadership and great pay... I'd look elsewhere. I'm also not sure that working at a large traditional bank would be viewed favourably, so I wonder if you'd be best to keep cracking on with the consulting for another couple of years... opinions may vary and you gotta do what feels right for you 😊 Good luck!

Thanks PS1. My biggest goal is to gain industry experience. I have plenty of agile experience. I do agree with you that this job will likely lack some of the cutting edge tech + leadership exposure. The pay is good however.

I’m starting to accept that no job is perfect and this would be a stepping stone to something better.

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