Applied Materials Discussions

Just started at the firm a month and half ago and snapshots are already happening soon. How important are they? I’ve had pretty low utilization, so I’m kinda nervous as an experienced hire

So finally i found a sweet girl. She was my uber driver from airport. I felt a sudden "💙2💘" connection the first time we had an eye contact. Is it just me after busy season or what?#trollswelcome2💩

Going to the UK for a short-term secondment starting in January. Anybody know what their busy-season is like? 🤔

We have a big deadline on Monday morning. The new hire said he won't be available during the weekend due to some personal/family commitments. Any thoughts? How should I manage this situation?

What is the quickest and most efficient way to digitize all of my papers from pre-covid life?

Highest number of billable hours you have seen in a year?

So what's “Project Fit” (aka CUT BACKS/LAYOFFS)?

Did tax reform create more work for people at CMAAS(PwC), FAAS(EY), etc ????

I received a call for TPM at Google. I’m super nervous. Would appreciate if someone could please offer tips and material to go through the interview process!

Why can't Deloitte tax just wear casual clothes everyday? We're in the D office anyways and hardly around clients😩

FAANG is now MAMAA (Meta, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon and Alphabet)…Whoa Mama! As if there weren’t enough acronyms in our lives. Happy Friday All!!!

When you screwed up, and you feel terrible, but then your manager was nice about it. Thank you manager! 🙇🏻‍♀️

Hi y'all
Anybody here pivoted careers completely? How did you go about it? How much time did it take for the transition ? What tools or online help(training/ coaching) did you take to make the switch??

What health insurance bkd has? Any 401k match?

How long after dating someone do you share your income if at all? .. do you share with your parents? Has this posed any problems for you ?

Hi everyone, what kind of industries are available for tax? I don’t want to do public accounting anymore. Hours are too long. Thanks!

I am so sick and fed up with some of the older clients at my job. I know it's my responsibility to take care of them, but they're just so sexist sometimes.

What is SVB wealth advisors starting salary with in the private banking? Or honestly what is a good salary for wealth advisor and a comp plan.

Question, if you pay off your house isn’t a 100k salary more than enough to sustain a good lifestyle? My goal has always been to payoff my mortgage then find a really easy analyst role to sustain my expenses. Assuming I’m a director/VP by the time my mortgage is paid off I’d probably be able to do an analyst 40hr week in like 10hrs. Esp at some of these low expectation companies. What do y’all think about this plan?

Anybody using Marcus high yield savings? 1.9%APY seems like a no brainer, just want to be sure I’m not missing anything.

What is PF Transfer procedure from my last organization to TCS?

What is the *prime* amount of money to bring you happiness?

Does EY GDS gives year end break? Means Christmas holidays for a week?

Does LTI pay the full variable annually?
If not than what is the range in which the give the variable

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My previous manager would track us by hours daily, made a fuss everytime anything stretched and guilt us for that and the unplanned leave too unless it was COVID. Hinted him a lot of time, this is problematic but apparently he considered it "standard practice for agile".

Now 8/10 teammates have switched within < 1 year of project start (6-7 months with him) which tbh had good work in our opinion and even team was fun to work with even though none of us ever met in person.

Does a new joiner get WFH setup allowance? I just got an offer but it is not written there.

Given that a lot of ZSers ate joining Novartis, do you think that we can have a whatsapp group for the same? Thoughts?

Hello guys, will be having an interview next week. What level of questions i should focus on for microsoft interview. Technology is dynamics 365 and power apps.

With so much uncertainty in the economy and waves of layoffs that have hit tech especially hard... do we think there's really such a thing as a recession-proof job anymore if you're not an "essential worker"?

Book recommendations? I’ve been reading atomic habits, and have moved onto Traders guns and money.

Best places for takeout in inner loop? I love Local Foods, Aladdin, etc.

HI All,

In salary breakup of Bosch apart from total CTC, another payable amount is mentioned under 'NPS optional- Company Contribution'. What does this optional means? And whether this NPS amount is on the top of the offered CTC or will they adjusted it with some other component mentioned under fixed salary?

Hi All,

I'm facing error as "employee ID is not available in BGSW user list" while registering in associate arena app.

Please let me know how to fix this error.

Thanks in Advance.