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Discussion on: Technical Consultant vs Software Engineer. Which career is for you?

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CuriousDev

It actually depends on what people understand regarding these two roles. A "technical" consultant does not necessarily decide anything related to business. This looks more like tasks for Business Analysts. What you have provided are some nice examples and this is just how it could be seen. But I do not see any detailed comparison, which shows (main) differences and possible similarities.

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Sameer Kumar

Agreed!

Even for me, my mode of operation is mostly providing fact driven opinions. Like, if you go this way, x y z metrics will be influenced by roughly this much.

A recent example was suggesting proper change detection in a monorepo ci pipeline to reduce github action running time. Hence, reducing the time to test and deploy to a quarter.