Any thoughts on BCG's Technology Advantage program?
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Any thoughts on BCG's Technology Advantage program?
People being let go bc of comparing performance against peers is bs. upgrading the team? how come other rigorous fields (investment banking, medicine, Big Law, oil & gas engineering, trading firms, etc) don’t feel the need to do this, yet they have the right people the teams need every year 😂 consulting isn’t the most rigorous/difficult/or prestigious career. just say it’s for the greed of the firm, at the cost of unempathetically uprooting employees lives & at least you’ll be honest.
At 5 YOE and 190 base and feel underpaid. How underpaid am I? What comp could I get if I jumped to another firm? Assume only jump that would be a step up is some T2 and above
I was just terminated from the deals group. I’ve let myself go in terms of my health and weight. I figured I’d use a good chunk of the severance time to get in shape over the summer and focus on my health but my friends and family are pushing me to find a way to juggle both and call me crazy for taking my time. My plan is to build a morning routine of fitness and work that into my new schedule when I’m rehired. Any thoughts ?
About to be a Senior 3 in people consulting at EY. Unsure when I’ll get to manager (EY seems to be not promoting as many rn). Offer from grant thorton offering me 20k more than I make now. Asking for a signing bonus as well. They’re building a new change management practice. Should I go?
Opportunity to take a job but can only stay a month and a half before my start date for another job - should I take it?
It’s growing rapidly and a sizable chunk of our business
I think they’re pretty great. Have worked alongside them and managed dedicated TA teams in the context of larger transformations
Thanks 🙏 . Are the Tech Advantage teams fully integrated with the strategy teams? Wondering if there's a significant segregation between the strategy and tech folks
There are many models. It is practice area just like consumer, healthcare, corp dev, or ops. Lots of opportunity for cross-staffing and team integration. That said, TA has a higher mix of Expert Career Track folks (still consulting with same titles but generally not partner track / sales expectations) and more laterals with specialized skills. I’ve worked with TA folks as SMEs billing 10% to the project, as consultants running a single tech workstream, and as a stand-alone team in the context of a broader effort (eg TA Partner, PL + 2 as one of several transformation teams). They also do TA-only projects
They’re different practice areas so in some ways yes but we do a lot of digital transformation which involves both