Thinking of switching from Technical Product Management to Consulting
Have absolutely no idea about how consulting works (you can roast me for that) But I am looking into options to switch from Technical Product Management. Reasons - in my entire job role, I love the initial Ambiguous phase, but wears off once I swim through it - love reading and researching about initiative on internet and doing data analysis (my educational background is CS) - owning a product gets mundane once I know in and outs, need to keep changing to different projects Here are my questions - 1) Are these reasons good enough to switch to consulting? 2) only field I know is full stack web development, cloud, Analytics and ML. Is there an opportunity to be in consulting where its best of both worlds? 3) hoe is consulting market for new hires? YOE - 5yrs Base - 185k
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In the consulting game, you've gotta hit the ground running and make sure you’re on the bill from day one. You need to keep that utilization rate above 80%, meaning you're billed for most of your time. Plus, you've gotta chip in on those project wins, too.
Consulting market is tough right now, given slowness in business. You can expect to make similar or slightly higher than your base in consulting. But given your specific skills, you may be able to shoot for experienced hire in tech consulting, imo. For general/strategy consulting that people typically think of at McKinsey; best shot is to go thru MBA recruiting for your case
I graduated out of MBA program last year. Does that change anything?