Sharing my exit here. Best thing I learned is if you want $$ move to tech and get technical skills.

Senior consultant at Big 4 -> FAANG

TC 330K, 4 YoE, VHCOL

took several rounds of interviews and hours of prep and research, but glad to be getting out of consulting and nearly doubling comp

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Waiting to see what these technical skills are going to be lol.

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Yes, I was a business major in university, and recently did a bachelors in CS part time remotely while working from a state school

Congratulations OP 🎊
What’s your background and what role did you land?

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Business bachelor at a state school -> B4 consulting in cyber strategy and risk -> networked into cloud security -> admitted and enrolled into a bachelors in CS remotely on the side -> looking for tech roles and begging for referrals on blind -> interviewing for months -> offer. Role is mid level security engineer role in the cloud security space. Thank you!!

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Which comes first, moving to tech and then gaining tech skills or vice versa? 🙂

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Vibe coding apps, I did put programming languages and AI tools on my resume, and I put GitHub repos up of what I did at work but anonymized the patterns

Did you move to a technical role? Did you relocate to the city for the tech company? Did you apply, or did a recruiter reach out?

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AWS Solutions Architect Associate, CISSP, AWS Security, don’t do Security+ and honestly I’d skip CISSP too but it was easy and I wasn’t 100% committed to this path

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Are you located on the west coast? That TOC is crazy high.

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Yes, it will be on the west coast

Do you think we can connect? I am trying a similar thing and would love to chat as I am very early in my journey

Gotchu homie

Congrats!! Would love to connect if you’re free

Congrats

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