u/RewardOpening

Hey everyone,

I’m looking for some honest feedback because I feel like I’m missing something.

I have about 4 years of IT consulting experience at a Big 4 firm straight out of college, and I’m still there. Throughout my career I’ve done a lot of work that’s closely aligned with product management—working with stakeholders, gathering requirements, prioritizing features, writing user stories, leading workshops, coordinating testing, and helping drive product delivery. It’s the type of work I genuinely enjoy.

For the last couple of years, I’ve been applying (on and off) to Product Manager and similar roles at larger tech companies, but it’s been incredibly difficult to even land an interview. The only notable exception was making it through Meta’s interview process once.

I’ve had multiple recruiters and experienced professionals review my resume, and the feedback has generally been positive, so I’m starting to wonder if the issue isn’t my resume.

A few things I’m wondering:

• Is the PM market just that competitive right now?
• Is coming from consulting instead of a tech company hurting my chances?
• Should I be targeting Associate PM, PM, Technical PM, or another type of role?
• Would joining a smaller AI startup first make it easier to eventually transition into big tech?

Ironically, I get contacted fairly often on LinkedIn by AI startups, but I’ve always been hesitant because I’d prefer the stability and scale of a larger company.

For those who successfully made the jump from consulting into tech PM, what actually moved the needle for you?

Thanks in advance—I appreciate any advice.

Hey everyone,

I’m looking for some honest feedback because I feel like I’m missing something.

I have about 4 years of IT consulting experience at a Big 4 firm straight out of college, and I’m still there. Throughout my career I’ve done a lot of work that’s closely aligned with product management—working with stakeholders, gathering requirements, prioritizing features, writing user stories, leading workshops, coordinating testing, and helping drive product delivery. It’s the type of work I genuinely enjoy.

For the last couple of years, I’ve been applying (on and off) to Product Manager and similar roles at larger tech companies, but it’s been incredibly difficult to even land an interview. The only notable exception was making it through Meta’s interview process once.

I’ve had multiple recruiters and experienced professionals review my resume, and the feedback has generally been positive, so I’m starting to wonder if the issue isn’t my resume.

A few things I’m wondering:

• Is the PM market just that competitive right now?
• Is coming from consulting instead of a tech company hurting my chances?
• Should I be targeting Associate PM, PM, Technical PM, or another type of role?
• Would joining a smaller AI startup first make it easier to eventually transition into big tech?

Ironically, I get contacted fairly often on LinkedIn by AI startups, but I’ve always been hesitant because I’d prefer the stability and scale of a larger company.

For those who successfully made the jump from consulting into tech PM, what actually moved the needle for you?

Thanks in advance—I appreciate any advice.

Hey everyone,

I’m looking for some honest feedback because I feel like I’m missing something.

I have about 4 years of IT consulting experience at a Big 4 firm straight out of college, and I’m still there. Throughout my career I’ve done a lot of work that’s closely aligned with product management—working with stakeholders, gathering requirements, prioritizing features, writing user stories, leading workshops, coordinating testing, and helping drive product delivery. It’s the type of work I genuinely enjoy.

For the last couple of years, I’ve been applying (on and off) to Product Manager and similar roles at larger tech companies, but it’s been incredibly difficult to even land an interview. The only notable exception was making it through Meta’s interview process once.

I’ve had multiple recruiters and experienced professionals review my resume, and the feedback has generally been positive, so I’m starting to wonder if the issue isn’t my resume.

A few things I’m wondering:

• Is the PM market just that competitive right now?
• Is coming from consulting instead of a tech company hurting my chances?
• Should I be targeting Associate PM, PM, Technical PM, or another type of role?
• Would joining a smaller AI startup first make it easier to eventually transition into big tech?

Ironically, I get contacted fairly often on LinkedIn by AI startups, but I’ve always been hesitant because I’d prefer the stability and scale of a larger company.

For those who successfully made the jump from consulting into tech PM, what actually moved the needle for you?

Thanks in advance—I appreciate any advice.

Hey everyone,

I’m looking for some honest feedback because I feel like I’m missing something.

I have about 4 years of IT consulting experience at a Big 4 firm straight out of college, and I’m still there. Throughout my career I’ve done a lot of work that’s closely aligned with product management—working with stakeholders, gathering requirements, prioritizing features, writing user stories, leading workshops, coordinating testing, and helping drive product delivery. It’s the type of work I genuinely enjoy.

For the last couple of years, I’ve been applying (on and off) to Product Manager and similar roles at larger tech companies, but it’s been incredibly difficult to even land an interview. The only notable exception was making it through Meta’s interview process once.

I’ve had multiple recruiters and experienced professionals review my resume, and the feedback has generally been positive, so I’m starting to wonder if the issue isn’t my resume.

A few things I’m wondering:

• Is the PM market just that competitive right now?
• Is coming from consulting instead of a tech company hurting my chances?
• Should I be targeting Associate PM, PM, Technical PM, or another type of role?
• Would joining a smaller AI startup first make it easier to eventually transition into big tech?

Ironically, I get contacted fairly often on LinkedIn by AI startups, but I’ve always been hesitant because I’d prefer the stability and scale of a larger company.

For those who successfully made the jump from consulting into tech PM, what actually moved the needle for you?

Thanks in advance—I appreciate any advice.

I’m about 32 days post op and I just want to offer some relief to incoming surgery folks.

Don’t read too much into the posts you see online. Most of it is extreme and you likely won’t experience the same challenges.

I had a torn lcl, ACL, and meniscus. Got surgery to repair my ACL and meniscus. I never experienced that 10/10 pain after surgery like some people have. Thankfully didn’t have much complications.

Not to say the last month has been a cake walk because you’ll definitely struggle with common things like sleep, discomfort, and lingering pain. I’m barely post op and life is already feeling more normal. I do everything I was doing before including working out at the gym. Other than the limitation of playing sports or running, you can be back to normal really fast.

To each their own, I hope this post makes you feel a little better about your upcoming process. I definitely overwhelmed myself with all the crazy scenarios that could happen but in hindsight it really wasn’t that crazy.

I’m 20 days post op on a ACL reconstruction and meniscus repair (quad graft).

For the last week my knee is constantly having nagging pain and I have to keep repositioning it/unlocking my brace which is getting very irritating. The pain isn’t horrible but it’s just so annoying and it’s made getting sleep so damn difficult to the point where I’m only able to sleep in 2-3 hour increments. There are times where I contemplate just taking narcos at night so I can just be more relaxed and not feel the pain.

Anyone else experience this and if so at what point does the pain fully go away when your leg is straight or bent?

I had a full torn ACL with a tear in my lateral and medial meniscus along with a grade 2 lcl tear (no surgery needed for that). I just had my ACL repair surgery and meniscus repair.

I spent so much time reading posts about the surgery and post surgery and kept running into the same theme that the pain was extreme and very unbearable the first 3-4 days after surgery. I got very worried and scared because I’ve never felt extreme and terrible pain before.

I am 6 days in and can confidently say I did not have that experience. I did a quad autograft with an abductor nerve block and took hydrocodone with ibuprofen. My pain level never exceeded a 6-7 the first 3 days and was consistently around 3-4 for the entire day. I did the ankle pumps, quad flexes, and leg elevation which I will say caused the most pain which I tried not to put my leg in that position often. Curious if other people have had similar experiences?

I’m in GPS consulting and I’ve told my project I want to roll off soon. My manager told me they will need to find me a project if I don’t have anything lined up.

Can I not just roll off go into the bench while I look? Do I need to stay on my current project until I find one?

I’m in a traditional model btw

I got the following as a consultant 2 in GPS. How should I feel?

Client - meeting expectation Team/leadership - meets expectations Firm/marketplace - above expectations Metrics - above expectations

Last year I got the following:

Client - strong Team/leadership - exceptional
Firm/marketplace - strong