Blackstone Discussions

On a scale of 1-10 with 10 being the most, how pissed would you be if you were a supervisor and you had a new direct report on your team with a higher salary than you? The years of experience are the same, but you have 3 designations (they have 0), you have 3 licenses (they have just 2), they have little to no experience with technical complex claims (you have hundreds), and you have 3 years in management (they have 0).

What’s a normal bonus for an am law 200 firm? Northeast regional.

Does anyone know what the base salary increase is going from Analyst to AVP at Barclays in the UK is? Front office trading role

I am a consumer debt collection attorney at a major regional firm specializing in that field. Ask me anything about my job.

Anyone have headphones suggestions for in-ear headphones good for conference calls and are noise canceling?

People who have made it to the perceived “top/best” place in their career field/education (MBB, FAANG, top PE fund, HSW, etc): do you feel satisfied? Have you had to recalibrate your goals? If so, what are those goals?

What are some good tech companies that aren’t the typical ones you think of (FAANG). I have been doing tech consulting (actually deving, full stack), but want to get into something more technical, and have my trajectory be product owner or architect vs business manager. Not sure I’d be able to swing a FAANG

I’m a mom with 12 years marketing and content strategy experience. Small tech company reached out for 15 hrs per week contract content strat work. Is $65 per hour too low?

Hi there! I’m a new grad PT trying to navigate/figure out what a fair starting pay is and if I should negotiate. I will be working in acute care for a well known hospital in Cincinnati, OH. Anyone willing to share their pay and YOE?

Dialysis nurse (chronic) here for 12 years. Trying to apply to a different company to get a raise. Living in Sarasota, fl. What should be a reasonable pay?

I’ve very fortunate to have a new job. I wanted WFH, but I guess it wasn’t in the cards. Do you think people who work from home are that much happier?

I received an offer for $74k as underwriting analyst. Company is based out of DC. Is $74k a good offer? Or should I negotiate for more. 6 years in the industry. 5 as an account manager/underwriting assistant

Anyone transition from tech implementations to tech sales? How? And how did your comp change?

From where to get good and cheap furniture in delhi?

Working in Risk Management, looking into the FRM exams. Does anyone have any insight or advice?

Bookish fish! What’s the best book on leadership you’ve read? Particularly creative leadership.

No matter how much and how hard I try organize my day, stuff just pops out of nowhere all the time and I end up stuck at my desk until midnight almost every single day.

Anyone have a recommendation for books or resources on upping my sales game? Open to in person class, online class, books, etc!

Went for interviews with another firm and they called a few people at my firm behind my back to ask about me. Now everyone one knows. FML.

What total comp should I expect at at a Series D Bay Area start up at Director level?

IBM or Globant for the Business Analyst role?

How’s the morale over at dentsu?

Hi Fishes, Wish you a great day ahead 😊🤗.

I am wanting to start investing in real estate in the new year… I’m using this month to read up on it and familiarize myself with it. I am a true beginner and wanted to ask for any tips, tricks, advice, books, videos, magazines, podcasts, etc to start? Please let me know!

Where my fellow MBA students at? Tired of only seeing ‘rate me’ posts on the MBA applicants bowl.

If you need an internship or consulting job. DM me! We are an automotive consulting company working with high end oems and T1’s.

Any recommendations for a book/podcast/self study materials for a new finance attorney? I have no background in finance and was assigned to a finance group. Help me!!

Deloitte commercial offer: what should I expect to get?

Hi everyone I have interviewed for a product based company on Wednesday 2nd Feb next day I called HR he said that it’s most probably a positive feedback after that I haven’t received any call or email from HR team how many days should I wait and should I contact them ?

£50k TC, 2.6YoE working within the change arm of a bank ——- what do experienced fishes think is a good next move for someone like myself? Might want to move into consulting one day with ultimate aim of MBB but also enjoy technical coding work, particularly in credit risk / counterparty credit risk in banking — could use some fresh perspective ; quite confused atm as interested in many things! Don’t mind staying in change management either TIA - appreciate any advise

Public courses in NYC area?

Recs for apartment cleaning service in center city?

Hi! I’m a young professional with less than 2 years experience, started a new job 1.5 months ago. I’m having quite some difficulties on balancing out my response time to tasks. While I act incredibly fast if not immediately with some, I sometimes take 1-2 weeks with couple of hours worthy ones. Sometimes I ignore, procrastinate or simply other more urgent things come up to increase the delay. Also I work with 3 managers in my team which doesn’t help with expectations nor guidance. Any tips pls?

Samsung Galaxy Note 9 or iPhone X/XS? Like the S Pen for writing but would also like to be able to send texts from iPad without keeping the phone on (I.e. iMessage). Currently have an iPhone