GCM Grosvenor Discussions

🐠 Fam, I need your words of encouragement. Had to break off a toxic friendship and just found out my 🐶 has organ failure. I’m in the red with PTO and can’t take time off to deal. I am devastated. 😔

Top consulting firms in the aviation / urban air mobility space?

A lot of conflicting information online. 🐠, do you know if J1 visa holders get the stimulus check if they meet the substantial presence test?

Why did we choose PA instead of a rotational program again?

Are you looking to transfer into Deal Advisory - Financial Due Diligence? PwC is hiring qualified candidates at all levels. DM me if you’re a qualified candidate (at least two busy seasons in audit or prior FDD experience) from a top 10 accounting firm (plenty of open positions nationwide looking to get filled ASAP) and I’ll try my best to help you. Please do your research into FDD prior to reaching out.

Looking to get back into SaaS sales after a few year hiatus. Any tips or recommendations to ramp myself back into SaaS sales? Any podcast or books, etc?

When life returns to normal, would people prefer to WFH anywhere or return to their offices in NYC?

Best books on leadership and sales skills?

What are your thoughts on ESPP?

Hi everyone! In this field, when choosing a masters degree program is it more beneficial to get a degree in Human Resources to further my knowledge in HR (my undergraduate degree is in Economics) , an MBA, or Data Science Degree due to the fact that HR is becoming more data driven as well as get a PHR / SHRM-CP certification?

Any insight into GT risk advisory? Salaries at mgr and sm level? Recruiters getting aggressive

Any recs on standing desk converters? Already have a desk so looking for a converter to put on top. Firm is allocating budget for wfh equipment.

Anyone have insight into what Corporate Development at PayPal is like?

Any idea why EY is not on the list of Vault 50 top consulting firms but it is on the prestigious list?

Is the best way to learn provision for someone who only does compliance one of those big 4 guides? Do they get updated each year? Any other sources you recommend?

Not sure if this goes here but my brother is looking for an acquisition role at a real estate investment firm in NYC. Right now, he has 3 years experience in commercial real estate as a broker. Any one have any opportunities or ideas where he should look? Thanks for all the help!

Just curious on anybody’s thought about Citi rolling it’s retail banking back.

Female 🐠s - how much of a dealbreaker is balding

So this boring interview ... is it really for 30 min???

Anyone from Deloitte/KPMG/EY/PWC working in Servicenow projects?

I'm accepting an offer with a new company... Start in early Aug. Senior Manager role, though in this company that equates to Manager at most consulting farms. They did not had hunt me. I came to them for the job.

I have COVID delayed vacations planned for the last week in August and the first week in October.

Should I just cancel one of them? Or should I at least put both on the table and see what they say? They're going to hire me either way, but I wonder if it's a bad start to ask for both.

What do I do with a defunct company stock that still sporadically has trading volume? For reference, it went permanently out of business I. 2016 (chapter 6) but the stock still trades occasionally. Do I need to sell so I can claim the loss or will it just automatically go to 0 at some point? I would have expected it to happen eventually but it still has value (about 2 bucks for 200 shares lol)

Whats the second source of income for a IT employee ?

How long were you a senior in FDD before things started to click? Really enjoying everything so far but feel like I am behind my peers. Been about 7 months now.

Anyone else here have terrible utilization because their deals die and a code never opens? /can’t find another code to book hours? I’m sitting on over 200 billable hours at this point

Living in my parents house, which NEEDS a makeover. What do you guys do to make your house look cozier? My parents house is tiny, low ceiling, and no seperate on between kitchen and the living room. It literally looks like a grandma house.

Should I just use catalogs? Or should I hire an interior designer? Do you have any tips? My biggest issue is that it looks disorganized no matter what because there’s no distinction between when the kitchen ends and when the living room starts

Ladies, do you join in on the bro talk, ignore it, call guys out?

The US should have 1 year of paid parental leave- agree or disagree?

I have been offered C10- Financial reporting for FRSS. Need to know how is the WLB?

I was in a meeting, and there was a new attendee, a fellow Asian guy.

Senior member: “Hi [new attendee’s name], where are you from?”

New attendee: “from [city and state]”

Senior member: “No, where are you reeeeaaaallllyyy from?”

**awkward silence**

New attendee: “from God”

Well… 🫣

If you are an immigrant and people ask you where you are from, how do you usually respond?

AE: I need to take off this afternoon to the attend my grandmother’s funeral.
Owner: Why? She’ll be dead tomorrow too.

Anyone analyze QoEs before? Need to come up with questions for due diligence call and looking for some guidance

Watching Home Alone I see that I was taught a while ago not to fly AA..

What are some good Marriott properties to stay at in the Dallas area with points?

Friend lives in Moscow, Russia and friends with a Sr manager of multiple rolex ADs in the city. Apart from the usual DJs, literally the only thing they apparently have in the entire city is a single Submariner gold TT. Crazy. And here I was thinking that I can outfox the waitlists

What’s the most entertaining (in a good or bad way) thing you’ve ever witnessed at a firm outing or holiday party?

After COVID crisis how can I get an idea of average salary of Global Sales Director in Dubai vs. cost of living?