Katalyst Discussions

What's the highest raise you ever got during a performance review?

Suggested books or resources to learn more about strategy consulting? Different analysis, acronyms, etc.

What are some great behavioral or conversational skills you noticed in good communicators / team leads?

How do I check my actual utilization (not the effective one). Mybusiness only tells me the effective utilization

Any book recommendations about human psychology / thought processes?

Do you still implement reference checks (on top of background checks)? I’m not convinced of the value add to the selection process and it takes a lot of time and resources

Korn Ferry, Russell Reynolds or Heidrick & Struggles? Which one is better and why?

How do your hrbp team members divvy work? Which functions are centrally handled?

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

Anybody get nervous when interviewing candidates? I’ve never been on the other side of the table before and for some reason it’s stressing me out

Hi everyone, I work for large startup (300 employees) and I have been asked to develop a Progressive HR manual template. Some examples include gender neutral restrooms, lactation rooms, signing off emails with pronouns, and etc. Any tips/links for resources to help would be appreciated.

Is this legal? My spouses company just decided to change their comp structure for account managers. It was base + comm, now it’s commission only but nothing changed, OT commission is the same, didn’t get more points, just took away the base pay and said work harder basically. So now they have to worker harder to get $50k they were already making. (Not a decision based on employee performance, they’ve been crushing it. I think the company is just trying to save money they overspent else where)

Anyone work with a wealth manager? Is it worth it?

What’s the difference between EY’s Strategy and Transactions vs. EY-Parthenon compensation wise for a senior associate?

Told a friend of mine in tech I was considering moving to BCG. He asked me if I would have to move to Boston.

I followed up by asking what he thought the top consulting firms were. "I'd guess PwC and then McKinsey are the best. I've also heard of KPMG, Deloitte, and Bain, but I don't know much about them."

Just a reminder that outside our bubble no-one really cares about firm prestige etc.

I got offers from top consulting firms in Berlin and Amsterdam. Any ideas what factors to consider in my decision?

What’s the current WFH model @Merck ? Are they doing a hybrid schedule? How many days?

Young professional with 3 years of retail banking experience, 1 year of claims experience, and now roughly 6 months into insurance sales. Between selling in retail banking environment and every month of insurance sales regularly pacing 200% or over to goal. Loving comp but not loving the call center environment and hoping to move to another lucrative sales position with less non stop calls. Any suggestions?

Hearing rumors about Huron layoffs. Any deets? Friend of mine said he got the "email".

Notice there are so many people with debate experience in consulting. Kinda impressed. Any highly recommended books related to debate or communication in general?

UI dev - 5 year’s experience. Help me in choosing between 2 offers comparing all factors. Evoke - 19 LPA. TCS - 15 LPA

If any Lesbians in Atlanta want to grab drinks, I’ll be at MSR after the Dream Game tonight.

List of info people are interested in:
Age, sex, location, ethnicity, religion, height, insta handle (if shameless plug), one fun fact about yourself, what you’re looking for

Hi All,
I am a software developer with 9 years of experience working in Java based backend technologies. I am looking for WFH opportunities. Any help would be appreciated Thanks

What is your commute? Trying to gauge how far I should be willing to go for a good hospital lol

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I saw some sales managers discussing hiring strategies, especially for entry level roles (e.g. SDR, BDR).

One strategy that came up was having the applicant do 90 minutes of cold calling into real prospects with the hiring manager coaching.

What do you think of this approach? Would be curious to hear from both hiring manager perspectives and from candidate perspectives.

Hey everyone,
I recently started at HubSpot as an account executive covering SMB. I’m finishing up training and a Salesforce recruiter reached about a job opening doing pretty much the same thing. Salesforce was near the top of my list of prospective companies. Curious if anyone has experience working there and would recommend it over HubSpot?

So I just started a new job in sales (B2B specifically). All my life I’ve been in blue collar jobs, military, then construction work ect. I don’t have much money saved to get myself my own business cards as I’m sure they are important to have, I’ve got all the info that I need to go out and start selling. I guess what I’m looking for is just tips on how you guys were successful walking into a whole new arena if that makes sense?

Anyone else been impacted by the teacher strikes?

Anyone from GDS FAAS TEAM ???

Hi fishes,

As i have recently joined EY GDS as Consultant, Can someone let me know of an estimated hike %age the company awards?

I know it depends on the service line and the individual, just wanted to know an average amount

Where can I see the reviews post manager discussion?

Is it just me or was the logical reasoning on Bain’s SOVA test for the London office extremely hard? Does anyone know if it’s a big part of the interview process (compared to the Resume / CL)?

Hi All received retain offer from tcs same as PwC India any suggestions what I should do.CTC offered 6.5.TCS HR saying will share breakdown of salary post resignation withdrawal