Ankit Virmani at Google offices in Seattle.
Ankit Virmani broke into Big Tech after a career in consulting after months of mentorship and résumé building.
  • Ankit Virmani made a career switch from consulting to tech.
  • After a full day of work at Deloitte, he would spend hours every night teaching himself how to code.
  • The résumé that landed Virmani a job at Google is two pages long — a decision he defends today.

Ankit Virmani had spent five years in consulting when he began eyeing a shift to tech.

"I always thought in my heart that I wanted more technical depth. I wanted to build things rather than sell them too much," said Virmani, who first moved to the US from India to pursue a master's degree.

In the first half of 2020, he dove right in.