Those who left consulting for software engineering, what kind of eng did you switch to, was it worth it, and how did you accomplish a switch?

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I havent made the jump yet but i have my second round interview coming up for a senior software engineering position in industry. I would definitely try to get in as much development experience here (no more than one year) and then make the jump right away. You don’t wanna stay in consulting for too long if you wanna be an engineer

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I took up systems engineering. It's a decision I made and it was definitely worth it. I thought about it for a while before switching so I really didn't have so much issues.

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