Recent CS grad joining cyber consulting at big4 feeling fomo about not taking FANG offer, anyone care to share their exit story from consulting into industry that made it worth?

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Here’s my story: interned at big 4 when I was still growing in my technical abilities. Accepted offer. I didn’t go through any other recruiting (which is super dumb in retrospect). I spend the year growing heavily in my software engineering abilities, graduated and joined the firm. The experience was not what was promised to me. I started interviewing at other companies about 8 months in. Recently (after almost two years) I left to my current role at a startup.

You have a CS degree. You’re going to have options. Would I have taken FANG over big4? Yes. Personally, I don’t find the consulting industry to jive with my personality.

So far I’m happy in my new role. If I wanted to chase money, I could have doubled my salary 6 months ago by taking a vertical move to another big 4. I didn’t because I knew what I wanted to do and I know the type of organization I wanted to be in, and I knew another Big4 was not it. Has the big4 name helped? Sure a bit. Do I have any regret? Sure, I wish I had gone through recruiting and tried to see what else was out there. I didn’t understand my value (as a developer/data Engineer) in comparison to my salary until a year in. In the end I exited to the role I want, with a 40k salary bump close to home. I hope my story helps.

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This was in response to a post I made about leaving. I worked with teams across the country, and I met very few people who seem to be genuinely happy and fulfilled with life. Most of coworkers literally only worked and then went out and drank. I have hobbies, I’m part of communities where I’ve forged deep relationships and those things are sort of incompatible with a consulting lifestyle that sort of demands you to always be working or traveling. Honestly when I look at most of the people or firm leadership I just don’t understand what they got out of their job that justified them sacrificing so much. An MD went back to work the same week his first born was born. Why? What part of the job could possibly be so important? This is the culture that I talk about, we’re all a bunch of insecure overachievers who fall into some sort of Stockholm syndrome caused by our jobs being the only thing that makes us feel important.

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You most likely won’t use your full technical ability at a big 4. Worst case you won’t use it at all and be doing risk assessments and it audit work

No use it regret it now. You don’t know the future and don’t know what will be best for you in 5-15 years. Generally, most would take FANG over B4, but life has many twist and turns.

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