[cyanydeez]

One more deeper level: almost all consulting exists in a world of consultants driven to limit efficiency lest their billables decline. I know a few people who seemed to aggregate their entire personality to "hard worker" when they refused to progress.

[scarface74]

It depends. Many large companies have internal “Professional Services” departments with “consultants” who are full time employees.

Standard disclaimer: I work in ProServe at AWS.

When you “consult” and are employed by the company selling the software, billable hours and utilization is not the be all end all. Consulting is just the “nose of the camel in the tent”. They want you to be as efficient as possible so they can make ongoing revenue.

Trust me, AWS is not going to complain if it only took me 20 hours to do work that was estimated for 40 and brings in half as much consulting revenue if it means ongoing revenue from the customer.

There isn’t just a singular focus on utilization rates.

[aiisjustanif]

That’s one massively vague take on the whole industry of consulting, including on-prem software, open-source solutions.

My billable hours do fine while making operations more efficient and cost less.