Senior Associate

Would you take a manager role when exiting with <2 YOE? Backstory: I gave a high salary range for a company I was interviewing with and during negotiation they couldn’t hit it at the senior associate band so they offered a manager title instead. I turned it down because I thought it’d be foolish and short sighted to take a role like that so early in my career. Interested in hearing other thoughts and personal experiences!

Currently at v10. Work is great, but its a specialist group, def not a revenue center for the firm. My billing rate is super high. little junior support. Zero mentorship. Basically a billing machine. Def won’t make equity partner. Interviewed with a boutique firm. Great people and similar work! I’m a senior associate. I want to give business development a try (I know I will enjoy it but not sure if I will generate business). Thoughts?

Interviewing for a operational advisory associate position at a mid-market PE company based out of Florida. All-in pay is looking like $200k (for reference, it’s what I currently make as a senior associate) Anyone have experience working at a strategy consulting firm and moving to a PE advisory group? Any pros or cons you can call-out?

What is a reasonable signing bonus to negotiate for? Currently interviewing for a senior associate role in a Tier 1 city in the digital transformation practice with 3 YOE

When applying for jobs, do you put 2 entries if you have 2 roles from the same company? (E.g., associate & senior associate)

Currently interviewing with a couple startups, one late stage and one emerging. Comp is roughly the same give or take 5%. Early stage is leadership role for a new division, late stage is senior associate. What are some things to consider with evaluating the offers and organizations themselves?

Thoughts on applying to school to pursue a second bachelors in comp sci for a career switch into tech (non bizops/strategy role) as a newly promoted Senior Associate (2 YOE) in Consulting with a business degree? Overall goal is to get into Product Management and the second degree would be 2 years in length. Please convince me I’m not crazy! 👀 not very happy with building slides/models all day and don’t see myself in my manager’s shoes!

If I'm applying to a firm as a second year and the application requires a writing sample, would it be better to attach a brief I wrote in law school, or a brief written during my limited practice, which was revised by both a senior associate and shareholder?

Interviewed with a company, had discussions with two MD’s, a senior manager, and a senior associate. Now the recruiter has not gotten back to me. Am I getting ghosted? I realized I don’t have anyone else’s emails from the company.

I was not promoted to senior associate. I came in as an experienced hire and due to some timing issues with hire date and reviews, I didn’t demonstrate enough in time. I am generally well liked at my office. My goal is to transition to transaction advisory externally. How bad will not being promoted hurt me in applying for these positions once they open up? I have my cpa.

Currently working as a Senior Associate in Corporate Finance for a publishing company. Interviewing for start-ups to join the FP&A team leveraging my current FP&A skills. Made it to final rounds of two well known NYC start up companies. A senior leader (chief revenue officer) of one of our business units has pitched a Chief of Staff role for me where I would help him run the business, manage his direct reports and perform strategic analysis. A little torn...Thoughts?

Rising third year in big law here, trying to figure out what people use as a writing sample when applying to the government? I have drafted briefs but never without input and edits from partners (and it is always a partner or senior associate filing them). Any memos I have written would be privileged. But I also don’t really want to submit something I wrote in law school. Any advice?

If all someone does is throw you into their firm's referral system, does it matter who? For example, senior associate (friend) vs. director (stranger). Also, is there a higher chance if you get referred by someone in the practice you're applying for?

I’m currently a senior associate on the ops side at a PE firm. I’m looking to transition into the deal side. Does anyone have any tips / suggestions on navigating this process and/or how I should present myself in interviews?

Is it normal to have an interview with Partner in the first round? I am being interviewed next week for Senior associate position and the interview will be taken by manager and partner - 40 min each

There are 2 people I can ask for a referral: manager at another office (different city) or senior associate at the same office. Is one better than the other for landing an interview?

I have 2 phone interviews (second round of interviews) with KPMG as a senior associate in their advisory section of program delivery services section. Any advice on how to prepare for interview?

I got an interview in the advisory practice for program delivery as a senior associate. What’s the interview process like? I just got a second interview. Any tips would be appreciated!

Interviewing in industry with an international firm that is looking for someone with 8 years experience but the title is Senior Associate. I am a big 4 manager right now. What should I do?

Want to stay at the big four till I make manager which makes it easy to be a VP or manager when interviewing with any company. But thinking of leaving at senior associate level because idc anymore....