State of the Market

[oliverson]

Just been approached by an Indian consultancy for a low rate and have decided to engage just to see what happens.

I am currently being bombarded by ridiculous questions but my application has been accepted. I have extensive experience in this area but bet I don't even get a callback.

Spotted a beauty this morning.

AI Software Engineer

5+ years of experience.

List of skills, both AI and non-AI, as long as your arm.

£ 220-260 per day inside.

'Possibility' of remote work.

WTF?!?!

Advertiser is eTeam Workforce Limited. Never heard of them so I checked them out on Companies House. You can guess what nationality the director is likely to be!

[edison]

There's a reason a lot of us don't get Accenture roles. Also I've worked alongside them - they seemingly only recruit attractive ladies in their 20s and no one says anything about it.

I interviewed with Accenture when I was about 30. I'm male but didn't get in - feedback they gave was I was 'too grounded in reality' and 'not blue sky enough'.

[ladymuck]

Although I've been on the lookout for new opportunities all the while, I've not seen a single role worth applying for. I'm coming to the conclusion I'm probably retired.

Ah, one of those workless economically inactive sorts being a drain on society

[edison]

As do Deloitte!
I do like rearranging the letters Deloiite to make something more appropriate!

LOL, after reading the earlier comment about very attractive female consultants at Accenture, I was just about to mention Deloitte!

I've worked closely with Deloitte consultants on a couple of IT change/transformation projects and they had some extremely attractive female consultants.

But in my humble experience working throughout Europe, the number one consultancy for female consultants was Cap Gemini. Some of the ones I worked with in France and Belgium were truly jaw droppingly attractive. They were almost wasted in IT, they could have worked in modelling.

[PerfectStorm]

Just been approached by an Indian consultancy for a low rate and have decided to engage just to see what happens.

I am currently being bombarded by ridiculous questions but my application has been accepted. I have extensive experience in this area but bet I don't even get a callback.

They'll take you all the way up to fully customising your CV before you get ghosted.

[PerfectStorm]

I interviewed with Accenture when I was about 30. I'm male but didn't get in - feedback they gave was I was 'too grounded in reality' and 'not blue sky enough'.

Translation: "We want somebody who not only talks complete BS, but believes it too!"

I'd go crackers in one of these big consultancies. I guess some people are just more gullible than others.

[GJABS]

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SchumiStars, I sent you a message here last week. Just checking you received it? (notifications are not always the best). Thanks.

[hungry_hog]

I worked at Deloitte on what was their effort at a ‘strategy consulting’ branch.
They hired Oxbridge only - most of the women were stunners (as well as being clever) the men very RAH (Eton, classics at Oxford etc). One of them asked me the arithmetic for converting currency. Another owned his own flat in Chelsea, apparently bought with his student grant. I didn’t realise student grants were GBP 3m.

McKinsey, Bain and BCG would also hire Oxbridge only. They came to do presentations at various colleges and it was like an episode of the OC.

Back on topic- been getting a few messages about roles at Citi so have been bouncing them to friends. Citi are always hiring as people tend to leave after 6 months due to burnout.

[PerfectStorm]

i’ve worked with a few Oxford and Cambridge types and they are the very definition of book smart over street smart. They can’t work on any project that hasn’t had a discovery report written or do anything without spending a year in change control. If a technical problem came up, they wouldn’t know how to fix it or have the intuition to work out how. But the equally dim recruiters will fall over themselves to give them work.

[jamesbrown]

i’ve worked with a few Oxford and Cambridge types and they are the very definition of book smart over street smart. They can’t work on any project that hasn’t had a discovery report written or do anything without spending a year in change control. If a technical problem came up, they wouldn’t know how to fix it or have the intuition to work out how. But the equally dim recruiters will fall over themselves to give them work.

Meh, on the whole they are both smarter and about as street smart, give or take. Some of them are cretins, of course. Having a crappy upbringing or going to a tulipe school or university doesn't really convey tremendous life advantages, honestly. On the other hand, it is certainly true that the main consultancies do like posh people from good schools that aren't always the best those schools have to offer (), which is compounded by their being placed into advisory positions that they really shouldn't be in for their young years or experience. Designed to fail, a bit.

There's also a certain amount of projection about Oxbridge grads from people that didn't have the life advantages and/or intelligence and/or work hard enough to get in there. Just sayin' like.