What do folks think about moving from Big4 to a small boutique consulting firm? In cyber. For someone that is mid-career is this a good move? It is not forced through a riff or anything, but a voluntary move.

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I would strongly consider the firm culture.

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Better WLB or pay typically

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I made the move and I’m loving life at a mid size firm. We are all chasing the same clients and doing similar cyber work with less politics with the leadership teams in cyber. If you have the skill set, you get staff quickly and more transparency too.

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What firm are you at? Is your work pretty technical?

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It definitely just depends on what motivates you. In consulting, I think the day to day enjoyment can greatly change with the engagements/clients (both actual work wise and team/environment) so it's important to look at the general culture. I'm extremely money driven, though, and typically you can make more outside of B4 so that would be my deciding factor.

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Big4 is big. We will always be a small fish in a big world. I am now moving to a small company where I will get to talk to c suite and be part of the decision making. Lots of visibility and opportunity to grow

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Left industry for boutique. Love it.

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If you are a technologist it's all about hands on skills. If you can develop them better at mud sized firm I would go. If you are functional I think the bigger firms are better.

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Better WLB

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