AMA. I'm a former Deloitte Manager who was laid off last year. Recently signed with FAANG with onsites at FB, AMZN, AAPL, Groupon, Capital One. First rounds at GOOG, Netflix.

This community helped me a lot and I would like to give back by answering questions to the best of my ability. Resume tailoring, consulting to tech fit, interview prep etc.

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Congrats!!! Which company offered you the most TC? If you can break down the TC to base salary and RSU etc

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In my fintech company the PgM has the P&L responsibility and the PM just focus on building an amazing product. So the PgM focuses on operationalizing that product. Just shows that PgM and PM roles vary from company to company and it’s best to ask the delineation to someone who works at the company itself.

Just accepted a role with Amazon happy to help others as well in this difficult time.

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Hi there, I’m also a corporate finance turned consultant, post-mba. I’m most interested in your PE Ops experience. I’m potentially interested in exiting to this industry and would like to get your thoughts on two things: how did you get an interview and what are the most critical
Skills to have?

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Op, if you don't mind, would love to setup a call with you to learn about your experiences and get your advice on how best to position consulting experience for tech firms.
I know you're probably busy right now interviewing, so anything I can do to help in the meantime (e.g. interview prep) let me know.

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OP, you should have your own bowl with so many fans.

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did you go to a prestigious school? just wondering

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Just my assessment based on analyzing a few hundred post MBA FB/GOOG profiles on LinkedIn.

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👍🏽 good luck. Have you received offers or still in the process?

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Smart move OP - consulting is full of folks living in a bubble, similar to other competitive bubbles in law, banking, etc. It’s great experience, but waste of a life in my opinion if you do it long term unless that’s your only option and work is just a means to an end for you. Good luck with your role!

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How did you manage to get these interviews? Haven’t been able to get one during COVID

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As I mentioned, I was laid off end of last year. Most of the onsites were pre March. Two were post March.

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What LOB were you at Deloitte and what kind of engagements were you on? Did the experiences from those engagements interest the interviewers, and if so, which ones?

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What role did you land at faang?

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What role/location? What’s your best piece of advice for interviewing at FAANG?

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Also, thanks for doing this and congrats on landing the role!

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Do you have a stellar LinkedIn profile?

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Thank you so much!

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What position/level did you interview for at Capital One?

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Would you mind sharing any general examples PM1?

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Sorry to hear that. Feel free to DM with questions.

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Congrats! Any tips on interviews at FB? What type of case did they do?

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For Facebook the skills to highlight for non tech roles would be - cross-functional team player, data analytics, empathic to stakeholders, negotiating to ensure program goals win over team goals, ensuring you have an impact irrespective of the role and how you would measure this impact. My case focused on a recent high profile terrorist attack and how I would go about reducing the spread of this content on the platform as close to real time as possible.

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Congrats!

Is capital one and Groupon good to work for?

Groupon is a good place to work based on my contacts there but their business model seems to be on the way down. Have heard only good things about Cap One from my contacts there and generally on Fishbowl.

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I just found out about getting laid off. Can we connect?

I am at tier 2 consulting in EMEA post-mba. Do you think it is worthwhile to go to the us for another degree purely because I want to break into tech there?

Please DM with more details. Don't have insight into what programs to pursue and stuff though.

Asking for referral has never been easy. Partially due to culture reason I am a bit timid to ask second-layer connection or alumni for referral directly.
Btw, do they ask you when you were laid off and hasn’t been working for some time?

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Congrats! Question: How did you answer when asked about why you left Deloitte?

Strangely none of the FAANG asked me that. They asked why do you like us and this role.

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