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Hello All, In the next couple of months i am targeting companies like Apple , American express, Salesforce, Microsoft etc. Can anyone please share the required skill set and preparation strategy for these companies? YoE - 4 years Current skill set - Advanced SQL , Pyspark,Azure services, Hadoop ecosystem , shell scripting, Power BI
I am not very good at DSA.
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What type of consulting do you want to do?
At this point anything that’s not finance or legal related I’m more or less down. It’s abundantly clear that what I need is just variety in work.
why would you want to go from working on tangible, important work-products, to fluff & taking out your ass? not to mention BCG (and all of the big firms) being shitty places to work with people that have no real knowledge of anything other than how to BS…
To get some variety. Working on one work product at this level is dialing in the infinitesimally small changes to products.
Why do you want to switch over to consulting? “Good firms” is very relative lol
So there’s variation at all in those projects? There’s no way it’s less varied then spending 1 year in the fab trying to figure out which nozel gets a 2% decrease in defect counts. Project don’t seem to have an ending on my side. There’s just infinitely levels of tweaking one can make to a process flow. That’s the part that’s getting me. There doesn’t seem to be any variation and there’s no real final product or end conclusion so you feel time hasn’t moved in years.
I made a similar shift 2 years ago from Arm to BCG.
I can say mixed feelings from the decision. The AI Engineer role is probably the best fit for what you described (consulting track), and for the good side you will definitely get the variety in work you asked for. There is an expectation that you do a very broad range of work, playing the part of full stack engineer/data engineer/devops/architect/traditional bcg consultant all rolled in to one. Combined with the variety of different clients you can work with it's great if you want to do bit of everything.
The bad though is the usual long hours, poor work life balance you expect from any mbb consultancy, but also more recently the culture shift has definitely made it a worse place to work than a few months ago. Recent reorgs have meant issues like regualr monthly social events are gone and with it we lost almost all of the old Gamma affiliation (when I started it felt like you knew/were friends with every single gamma person, New people were rapidly welcomed, that just doesn't happen as much anymore).
Also there's very much a push towards more big engineering projects in a company that just doesn't know how to do them properly (trying to apply consulting style shortcuts that hurt us in the long run, trying to employ poor quality cheap Indian offshore engineering talent to plug the gaps). This may improve in time as the company adapts, might not, too soon to tell at this point. It's a chance to try and push that change if you actually believe in it enough, but for the most part why should you care enough to try
Why don’t you switch to IBM Consulting (Many interesting data science and GenAI projects) or IBM Software? BCG X would generally require you to have strong experience not just light engineering skills.