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Yes. I was a CS major. My resume wasn't too different from yours. I got tired of being narrowly focused. Went back to b-school for various reasons, among them, to get a "clean slate" in terms of job opportunities-- ie to avoid being pigeon-holed. It worked, and it was expensive, but the jobs on the other side made it worthwhile. So my journey was: tech, business school, wall street.

From what I can tell there are many opportunities if you are "tech + X", where X is real experience in a (non-tech) industry. In my case it was finance, and once I had a few yrs experience with that, I had lots of choices because every firm wanted someone who both understood their business and how to use technology to supercharge it. Funny enough, 15 years later, I decided to do something different again... and went back to tech.




I’ve just graduated in Computer Science and I’m trying this pivot as well, but without the b-school (yet). ~2 years of tech work experience during my degree and I realised tech just doesn’t work for me right now. Starting in a much more generalist business role soon where it’s really helpful to have tech knowledge. Glad to know it’s worked out for you :)


Good luck. For me it was good to get at least a few yrs of tech experience before pivoting. it definitely was helpful later, some for the technical experience and maybe more for understanding the dynamics of how decisions get made by technical teams (including how politics comes into play). When you are part of the "business" that is the "customer" of the technical team, that experience can give you huge value that your peers may not be able to offer.




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