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No chance. The median consultant is a fresh graduate. The median government office worker actually knows something.


I have met plenty of fresh graduates who know more and are much more productive than older people.


I have met many new consultants. Most were less productive than experienced people.

There are exceptions but few.


Generally I have been found "experience" to be highly overrated and companies that lean harder on it to be typically legacy/declining/european companies.


When I worked as a consultant, the majority of the work was done by younger/less tenured/lower-level people.

The skill balance (actual, tangible IT/software skill) was heavily in favor of the "younger" (as above).

Most of the managers/those in supervisory roles were busy "showing impact" and "aligning cross-functional teams".


unlike the other reply, this is a an accurate description of consulting dynamics.




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