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Anyone (or know anyone) with experience at GMMB in the creative department (as opposed to PR, etc.)? I’m interviewing there and have read some troubling reviews on Glassdoor, especially around workload and burnout for non-senior staff. Given its size, I want to investigate whether that is company-wide or in certain departments.

For context, I’d be mid-level working with the west coast teams, so focus would be on causes and initiatives rather than politics.

Thanks in advance.

Expecting an offer, which I’m excited for but after the interview I realized that this division is 98% start up. The title is Sales Associate however the responsibilities beyond selling are: build the sales program; responsibility for all admin; education of staff including developing and conducting training regionally; creating marketing and promotion campaigns; reporting and measurement of staff performance involved in sales. No direct reports. What is an appropriate title and salary range?

I’m one half of an in-house legal team. I followed my attorney to this company because he’s the best boss I’ve ever worked with. We are looking to add a third person, an associate. I get to be part of the interviews because the day to day work will mainly be done with my assistance and my boss rightly understands that I need to like the person. What should I ask? I’ve never interviewed anyone above me. Basically just want to know they aren’t a jerk to staff.

How risky is it to ask your client about applying for a job there? Sr client is hiring aggressively and has even hinted to my teammate that they would hire the person. However that teammate works very closely with Sr Client and I don’t (I have before but not since early summer).

Our clients company overall is also notorious for poaching our staff (at least 3 transition there every week). Has anyone ever tried it?

What's up the weird designations at Nagarro? What does staff consultant even means. I am being interviewed for BA profile

Do experienced hires (at the staff or senior staff level) still get case study interviews when moving from one consulting firm to another?

Any advice for how to ace Chief of Staff interviews? What types of questions are common?

Need suggestion: I submitted a job application for a in-house position posted by a recruiting agency on LinkedIn. Talked with the recruiter, she submitted my application to the company. Now both the recruiter and the staff from the company have contacted me to schedule an interview. It does not appear that they have been communicating with each other. Should I tell both of them that I have been contacted by both?

Any staff attorneys/hourly attorneys willing to share their experiences? I’m partnership track in BigLaw but am so interviewing for a staff/hourly position at a different BigLaw firm for the work/life balance. I just am hoping I’m not trading one hell for another!

I'm at a F500 company. We've had no success hiring IA senior or staff and have been looking for a month. Is that pretty typical? Not even getting to interview stage

Started looking at jobs in private accounting. I scored interviews for a Staff Accountant, Junior Accountant, and Accounting Assistant. I just finished interviewing for the Staff Accountant position which feels very much like AP/AR and Bank Recs to start, similarly to the other two positions. Does the title matter? I want to be able to grow but at the same time I want to make sure I’m moving up positions in my job search so I’m exposed to harder/higher level work.

What's the typical interview process like for VPs at private debt funds? Do they still run case studies or live modeling tests like they do for more Jr staff or is it more high level?

advice on switching from Public accounting at a Big four to an industry staff accountant position after only a little more than a year ? I have no desire to become some kind of CFO or CAO. I’ve been interviewing for positions at smaller public accounting firms as well as staff accountant roles in industry. I just want my life back before busy season….

I have an interview w/ McKinsey Risk Business Analyst role… currently staff 2 in tech risk… what does McKinsey like to see from candidates? Anyone currently in that service line?

Anyone moved to Systems Evolved Inc (SEI)? I took the interview basically for practice but they made a convincing case, comp was better than expected, and model of only hiring experienced staff is appealing. Glassdoor has great reviews… so what’s wrong with them?

Anyone here who works at Venable? In IP Department ideally. Looking for your thoughts about firm culture generally, work life-balance, how the atmosphere is for women, how the working relationships between staff and attorneys seems, how turnover is these days, etc. Am considering applying for a position there that would remote working and I think would be a job that does work for all of the offices that have IP groups (which may be all of them?)

Doing an interview tomorrow for a data scientist to potentially staff as an data science engineer. Looking for new ideas for questions. What are some you use?

Going through EY Assurance staff interview process. What should be the base salary range?

I'm about to have an interview for a technical accounting & external reporting role (staff/associate level). Can anyone having experience in this role please advise what I should prepare for the interview? Thank you.

I’m 4 rounds into the interview process for an Assistant Controller position in SoCal.

For the next round, I’ll be meeting with the Controller, Accounting Manager, and 5 other junior accounting staff.

I’ll have 30 minutes to explain a month-end close task (of my choice) to the accounting team.

Also, I’ll have to analyze a random reconciliation and explain improvements that can be made.

I’m just a 2nd year manager, so I’m getting so nervous, and any insight or tips would be appreciated!

I’m 4 rounds into the interview process for an Assistant Controller position in SoCal.

For the next round, I’ll be meeting with the Controller, Accounting Manager, and 5 other junior accounting staff.

I’ll have 30 minutes to explain a month-end close task (of my choice) to the accounting team.

Also, I’ll have to analyze a random reconciliation and explain improvements that can be made.

I’m just a 2nd year manager, so I’m getting so nervous, and any insight or tips would be appreciated!

Any insight into EY’s IFCS practice? Thinking of applying to their open staff role from another firm, I’d be transferring out of audit.

Debate:
If you’re interviewing for a new position outside the firm and the interviewer is unavailable after your billable hours (staff augmentation project). Typically for appointments (dentist, doctor), we make up the time outside of working hours. Would you A) block off the time on your calendar as an appointment and make up the 30 min outside of normal working hours
OR B) take 30 minutes of PTO for interview

Hot take: consulting firms should stop working for a week and let people interview/jump. Then staff projects.

Anyone have experience interviewing or working at Reference Point? Do they do true strategy work or is mostly staff Aug?

Am a staff 2 at EY up tor promotion in October to Senior.

I want to try applying to McKinsey, does it make sense to wait till October , get my promotion and apply?

Or should I apply right now?

Got a MS, don’t come from a fancy school.

What are some of your favorite interview questions to ask when interviewing paralegals/support staff? I’m sitting in on interviews next week and it’s been a while since I was the one getting to ask the questions. For context, the position is for a paralegal position doing civil litigation and family law litigation. Small firm (4 attorneys total).

Levels in tech. Is a staff program manager/ engineer/ product manager a higher level? I always thought staff was an associate level ( referring to EY) . Kept applying to staff roles no wonder never got calls 🙄

Is it more at a manager level?

Interested in applying to Accenture Federal Services. Can anyone explain what the “++” means at the end of the job title? What is the title ranks order for example staff, senior, manager, etc for consulting? Anyone in process improvement or optimization willing to provide some insight?

Hi everyone, I kindly ask for suggestions here. I was been referred by my friend to financial service tax in EY.After a call with the MD, he said that my background doesn’t align with theirs because they usually hire Staff1 from campus recruiting, they don’t hire Staff2 and I’m not qualified for Senior1. I am a staff accountant in a local public accounting firm for two and a half years with CPA. Im having a interview with EY recruiter soon! Any suggestions on tax lines? Or tips for interview?

Got final interview with 2 ppl from Deloitte yesterday, 1 is a manager and the other is a partner. I think I did well with the manager.For the partner, he asked 2/4 questions that I did not prepare so did not answer as well as expected. He stopped asking me after just 10 mins with those 2 questions. Given that I have some strengths from my resume ( high gpa, passed cpa) and fluent communication,friendly manner. Any hope? Position: Audit staff.

Hello everyone, if anyone is interested or know anyone interested in applying to EY PAS and working within hr transformation, change management , org design, learning and transactions. Particularly targeting the staff , senior levels

Please DM me for a referral.