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24 year olds? Since when are they sending the senior consultants out on engagements like this! I lasted not even 6 months working in professional services, really woke me up to what "prestigious careers" really are.
Is there good money to be made though? If idiots are happy to pay more for shit than they do for quality work I'll happily deliver them shit.
"Content Management – Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) was the tool of choice to update and revise the content that appears on the website." If you want to blow a massive development budget AEM is a great choice; otherwise I'd advise you to pick a different content system. This decision alone probably sunk multiple millions of dollars. The platform license alone for their operating scale was probably a half million or…
Why anyone would pick that over a bunch of very mature open source offerings (with much larger developer communities) is beyond me.
I work with Drupal and WordPress, but would not recommend them for user data or transactional data (although in my case, we bridge Drupal/WordPress with CiviCRM, and that works relatively well).
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24 year olds? Since when are they sending the senior consultants out on engagements like this! I lasted not even 6 months working in professional services, really woke me up to what "prestigious careers" really are.
Is there good money to be made though? If idiots are happy to pay more for shit than they do for quality work I'll happily deliver them shit.
When I was at a consulting firm in London that I wont name, I was charging them 700GBP a day, and they were charging the end client 1500GBP a day (I saw this on an internal presentation slide I was not supposed to see)
My main question is: who hires Accenture for this kind of job, for no less than $32m??? They would be my last point of call, literally after my mum, and maybe even after my dog. At least he's cheap.
I often wonder how much it would cost to literally hire the best freelancers in the market today to build their alternative to this monstrosity
Individual consultants can be okay. Consulting firms tend to be complete trash and make a living off the technically ignorant. Seems to be worse in web than other areas.
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24 year olds? Since when are they sending the senior consultants out on engagements like this! I lasted not even 6 months working in professional services, really woke me up to what "prestigious careers" really are.
Is there good money to be made though? If idiots are happy to pay more for shit than they do for quality work I'll happily deliver them shit.
I've never heard of a truly successful project by these large scale consulting firms. Even the so called success stories seem ... mediocre at best. Has anyone been part of such a project at a firm like that?
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I was being billed at > $300/hr when I first got out of school at 21 as consultant. 24 would make someone a senior consultant!
How much of that $$$ did you get to keep?
I talked once with an airline who had outsourced their entire dev and dev management to some foreign companies; they wanted to hire a mobile dev to go to where the team was and try to figure out why nothing was getting done, as they had no in house knowledge about mobile at all. I said hell no. Nothing ever shipped that I saw and I think they gave up and went back to in house again eventually. Just because you are a big company doesn't mean you have a clue.