A little about me. I’m a manager in a global business and tech consultancy. I’ve been in the industry for about 7 years and would consider myself to be in junior management.

Ask me almost anything. If it’s a salary question, I would encourage you to look at Glassdoor instead. Since this is lowyat, I rather not answer questions that will identify myself.

The industry is going on a bit of a squeeze but nevertheless there are (mostly technical) roles that we are still hiring for. I might be able to refer you to an open position if you have the right skills.

Web App Developer ( flutter )
AI Powerered App

Specialty

- Extremely fast to MVP
- No related education background - self-learn
- willing to Get paid after Alpha Stage ( partial prototype )

appreciate you can get me some job.

This post has been edited by ifourtos: Apr 13 2024, 03:27 PM

how many more years to be a partner?

We don’t do flutter unfortunately. Let me know if you do React (and have actual paid experience for iit).

Typical good people I would say 4/5 years plus minus from Manager. A lot of luck is involved. It’s easier if the sector is in an upswing or you’re riding behind a partner that is creating a lot of business growth. It’s harder if the practice is not growing enough. A lot of reasons why the business is growing or not. Could be the people inside or could be a sector-wide trend. Rising tide lifts all boats.

Personally I don’t see myself making it or staying that long.

Currently still flutter.

Based on your previous answer, it sounds you work within the consulting business of the Big4. Lately, I see a lot of companies opting to run and manage their IT projects internally rather than get consultants. Is that the case?

This post has been edited by Mavik: Apr 14 2024, 09:51 AM

Maybe I am or maybe I’m not 😉

I would categorize tech spend into 2 groups. Project and BAU (business as usual). Companies still rely on consultants for projects because it doesn’t make sense to hire high-paying talent in X if you only have the budget to execute 1 project in X. Complex projects usually require high skill talent for only a short time.

However it’s also true that an increasing share of larger companies are taking on tech projects as BAU. E.g. large telcos and banks may have their own development teams for websites, apps, and backend services. These teams rarely have the mandate or capacity to do something completely new however.

It’s also true that a lot of skill sets in consulting is becoming more commonplace in regular companies. You can’t sell the same thing over decades after all.

Thanks for answering! I have seen less and less of the larger consultants at various projects across GLC and MNC's here in Malaysia. Most of the time it is either the larger global systems implementers or local smaller firms handling the task.

I kinda agree with you. It is easy to start a small firm once you have the skills to deliver a project and have the relationships you may have built from a bigger firm. It’s easier to compete on price when you’re a smaller firm. Clients nay also prefer to work with someone they’ve a relationship with as opposed to a senior partner they rarely see.

And past a certain project size, you have to go with big SI firms since only they have the scale to staff the project.

Still there’s value in the brand name. You almost never engage a smaller firm outside their bread and butter. But you may give a project to a bigger firm because you at least won’t look too bad for hiring a noname to then fail a project.

Have you ever had to take over a failed project at a client side where it was previously managed by another team or another company?

7 years since graduation?