Acxiom Discussions

How have y'all balanced travel while maintaining friendships? Just starting in the biz and already feel friendships growing apart due to distance and hardly being around for get togethers

Warning for those signing up for Orange Theory 1) fraudulent charges on my account 2) it takes close to an act of God to cancel your membership. Took 1 week & a threat of contacting attorney general

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Asking creatives to work on a project with lots of award potential but minimal budget/billable time allocations. So the majority of the work would be done on personal time.

What's the best thing you've ever bought off Amazon?

How do y’all find time to learn? I’m trying to teach myself OO programming through open course classes but when I’m at the client 10-12 hours a day and family on weekends it seems impossible!

What is a simple way to explain to my boyfriend that investing in equity with an expected return of 10% is better than paying off debt that is growing at a rate of 6%. He has student loans and is adamant that he wants to pay all of them off immediately before saving any retirement money. I understand that many individuals use this strategy but I think investing in index funds for the long haul is better from a wealth accumulation perspective, without even factoring in tax implications of 401k

Am I the only one who can't stand when someone is making an irritating noise at their desk? Like crumbling papers or wrappers? WHAT ARE YOU DOING?

Do you ask to see a copy of a contingent offer or offer letter if you want to counter?

Does anyone know the salary range for Principal Consultant in Slalom in Texas area ? Is it more than 200k?

Which people or which department in your agency are the sharpest/most professionally dressed? And does their attire affect your perception of them?

I’m in a process for a role as Enterprise Sales Director (no reporting people under me, it’s a normal sale role) with a big Language and Localization company in Europe.
What salary could I be looking for? Base + commission.
I earn around 75 000 USD/y today.

Should I sell my personal laptop and just keep an iPad? Seems redundant to have a work laptop and personal with the new iPadOS update coming

I have been working as a PreSales SA for 4 years for a tech giant. It has been a while that I feel like I am not growing at my job which is impacting my productivity. How should I address this to reach a conclusion as to what I should do next? Maybe find motivation or look for an exit strategy?

Hello! I'm looking to host a virtual team event (5 people) to celebrate the hard work they've done recently... lunch accompanied by some type of fun activity. Looked at virtual escape rooms and they seem to be $1000 for 2 hours... anyone done anything else, besides a free boring trivia game/bingo night, for $200-400 price range?

Sad to share we aren't allowed to participate in post-it wars 2017 😩 Biolumina, H&S, Getty, etc best of luck to y'all!

Is someone working at Mars&Co or does someone have any feedback about them?

So yall all happy with yall comp plans?

How do you convince a client you add value?

Hello Everyone, I recently joined an organization as a Business Development Rep to help market SEO, SEM, CONTENT WRITING, WEB DEVELOPMENT & E-COMMERCE. I need ideas on how to get qualified leads in Canada and the US for these services. Anyone with any ideas or resources of getting qualified leads, Please help as this is a very good opportunity for me and it's something I'm very interested in doing. Please, Please, Please Brainstorm with me or introduce me to good contacts for this. Thank you!!!

What should be preferred? A) a practice to which my skill set is more aligned to OR B) a practice where I am more aligned with the partners. I am M3.

Is ‘customer Executive’ just a new name for Account Executive?

Anyone else still use the colon and parenthesis for a happy or sad face?

Hi Guys. I got an offer from Cognizant and now I'm getting a message that my onboarding pass is not generated. Is this something to worry about?

My BGV etc is all completed.

People who joined Cognizant recently please help.

Hello fishes,

I am about to get offer for C_2_H role with MNC. Can I re negotiate that offer with IBM ? Will IBM accept the contract offer and match ?

I joined infosys on may 19, from when shall i expect variable payout start? Month?

What are the restrictions after auditing a company. I know that you can’t work directly for that company within a year but can you work on advisory projects for that company with another big 4?

I am thinking about doing voiceover. Should I contact an agency, should I record a demo first?

On time slips my billables are 8,500 and unbillables are 3,675. Is this bad? What does it mean? How do I factor this into how end of year reviews will go.

I am shocked at how little we are talking about the endgame of the president’s election fraud lie.

If you believed your hated candidate literally stole the election, what would you do? Say “oh well, we’ll get them in the midterms?” Or would you do something more extreme?

Can anyone lay out a plausible path forward that doesn’t pass through bloodshed?

Anyone willing to provide a Consulting referral at Deloitte India management consulting?
9+ years of work ex in Industry. Top tier MBA.
Aiming for a Manager / Sr. Manager role.

Just discovering RSD after being diagnosed as an adult. I feel like SO MUCH of my life has been impacted by this and I just never had a name for it. At work if someone gives me negative or constructive feedback it can feel like a punch in the chest even if I know it's not personal. Makes romantic relationships so hard too. What do you do to handle it especially at work?

Does anyone know if there is a Catholic lawyers bowl? I’m leaving consulting to practice law, but I promise not to leave this bowl! Though I do wish this bowl was more active 🥺

What's the typical comp for a TAM in GCP? I was told $110k base + $45-70k stock which seems sort of low. Also any Teams want to share their experience in GCP? How's the workload and balance?

whats the difference between renting an apt, condo, and co-op?

Do your firms allow you to “earn” extra pto days after long stretches of work? I just finished a two week stretch of 14 hr/days and asked for this Friday off, only to be told it would be a pto day...

It’s hard for me to believe that the party of conservatives, which has historically stood proudly for important traditions, is now responsible for holding convention activities at the White House and having a Secretary of State engage in political activities while on official business in a foreign land. The window of opportunity to course correct, assuming it is still open, is closing quickly. Biden is closer to the Republican Party I grew up with than Trump is...