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I’m torn between wanting to go to the next promotion level M to SM. As a POC, there are less than five POC partners and even senior managers. I’m very supported by leadership, but worry I will miss ou… more

In my office we have a very small number of black people. I don’t know the exact numbers but it doesn’t seem like more than 10. All of them I know >3 are on a personal improvement plan for very bas… more

Don’t care didn’t ask , plus you’re white

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Have you seen any racism in a corporate workspace?

Hope my fellow POC are doing well!

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thinking of a my powerful POC peers who are out here killing it! keep it up folks!

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Hey everybody. Got laid off at D. BTA within strategy and analytics. Mostly LS/HC experience. Anybody can help out with a referral anywhere? Thank you!

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Anyone joining Ethel’s club?

Friendly reminder that by not taking a side you are, in fact, taking a side

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Live to work or work to live?

Did any of you take the GMAT (no matter how long ago) what did you get? And if you applied to b school where did you get in?

Would anyone be interesting in referring a friend of mine to their firm? He is a Nigerian-American who just got back from doing his mandatory year of work for the Nigerian govt and is having a cont...

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No one did a what up fam post?! 🤦🏽‍♂️

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“I see a lot of myself in you” 😭😭😭

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What’s your favorite POC only bar/restaurant/hangout spot?

Hope everyone had a wonderful week! Share what you learned, for me I learned that there aren’t a lot of intellectual property laws protecting open source code for machine learning algorithms!

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Just got an offer at Deloitte. Feel like comp/rank are too low due to lack of diversity of interviewers. :( Can anyone relate?

Religion is like a buffet, take what you like and leave the rest of the shit

1 year exp at a midsize firm here -- anyone want to refer me and cash in on that bonus?

I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have so… more

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How was everyone’s week?

Would it be wild if I added my preferred gender pronouns to my signature? (He/his)

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what's the whitest thing you've seen co-workers get away with on the client site?

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Who else here worked full time to put them self through school and is currently shackled to student loans?? 👋🏽

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So I have to play golf in order to succeed in this sort of professional environment? I.e. if I wanted to someday become a partner

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Any Valee, Megan Thee Stallion, Gunna, Zack Fox, Brandon Wardell, Deftones, Anand Giridhradas fans out here?

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