Anyone have advice on how to break into TMT strategy? Background has been in finance (both in industry and consulting). Wondering if this is even an option at this point.

Hello and welcome to the bowl! Please feel free to post questions, share insights and provide anecdotes from your current or future careers!

Advice for someone early in their career aiming to make partner?

Applied for the MIT Sloan MBA/Harvard MPP dual and got into Sloan. Would this significantly increase my chances of getting into the MPP?

Hi,
I need some career guidance.
I have 6+ yoe in business intelligence(Qlik), SQL. Self taught python up to oops/pandas/re.
What's the best direction to take my career forward and transition into a better domain if possible?
Should I do some DS/ML or cloud(azure/gcp) courses? If yes, suggest some.
I get calls for python but they demand scraping & webdev(selenium/bs/django/flask) which I have no interest in.
Can someone guide?
Also, what are the best BI roles I can go for & how?
Thanks

Anyone here successfully completed the CIA certification? What study material did you find useful?

What books would you recommend for someone wanting to get better at sales?

Best way to prepare for SHRM ?
Any tips or resources that helped you pass the exam?

I feel like I'm stuck in limbo.

Not enough experience to become a Senior designer, but too much to be a junior.

And there hardly any intermediate roles out there.

I wasn’t sure which bowl to solicit advice from so hoping to catch a bite here. I’m currently in ID. Of course, I want OUT! My interests are L&E and corporate. My options are 1) wait it out where I am in hopes to switch to L&E or 2) in house oil and gas industry transactional work. What would you do and why? I figured this bowl being specific to Texas would understand importance of oil and gas industry.

Is LS boutique to the buy side a viable route? Or is there often intermediary roles?

Can anyone please weigh in on base salary and bonus structure for Strategy& director level role? Also is the path to partnership similar across S& and PwC? TIA!

I can really use some direction. My background, I've worked 2 years in strategy and am currently coming off an exhausting year 2 in investment banking. I didn't particularly enjoy either role and am not interested in moving over to the buy-side or some monotonous FP&A role. Everybody says there's exit-ops aplenty, but I find myself with less options and even more picky than I did as an ambitious T2 undergrad student. Where do I go from here?

Any 🐠 here exit to Cityblock, Oak Street, Quartet, or similar company in a BizOps, Growth, or Strategy role?

Have relevant background for these roles, and would appreciate the opportunity to connect and learn about your transition. TIA

Has anyone made the jump from the tax group of an AmLaw 100 firm to a Big 4 tax group? I have questions.

I work in insurance. I was working for an Allstate agent and was fired the day after my grandmothers funeral for being “unenthusiastic in our morning meeting”. Now I’m having anxiety searching for a job. I don’t think I want to sell anymore yet every single recruiter I interview with says I should, that I have a “salesperson mentality”. I’m burnt out. Has anyone else felt this way? How did handle it? Is there a different career path I can take or am I destined to sell insurance forever?

Anyone know of any tech jobs out there that seem complex? Ones that someone can do with zero schooling but lots of experience behind them?

Hello, I’m current a Cyber Security Incident Responder but I’m a little unclear on what path to take in terms of certs/career path. What should I aim for? I current have a CompTia Security + cert and Splunk Enterprise Certified Admin. I’d also prefer the blue team or purple team.

Anyone in TAAG? How are the hours? Have you seen anyone transfer from TAAG into core FAAS?

BBW got my number.

Where is everyone originally from? Also, list your favorite spots in midtown area!


I’m originally from NYC and moved to Miami a few months ago. Lagniappe, Sugarcane, mandolin, Itamae are some of my favorite spots in walking distance. Still looking for a martial arts gym around here if anyone has good recs!

Leadership role in my state university’s alumni group vs leadership role at my firm’s early career group? Want to develop ways to show leadership for MBA applications in a few years. Thoughts?

The stress of this job ruined my life.
The stress has lead to an eating disorder that I can’t get control of. I’ve lost 25 pounds since starting at the firm two and a half years ago. I am 20 pounds less than I was in high school... I don’t know how to get control again. Even when the stress lays off I can’t eat more due to being used to being busy for almost 9 months out of the year...

Really? Noone bothered posting even on easter? I can't with you guys 😆.
Well Happy Easter to you all. Hope you have a blessed one !

Data Scientists: What were the skills you were interviewed on and what are the skills that you use in your day to day job? Let’s create a thread.

27, male looking for a doodle mommy ☺️

Hi Fishes,

Looking for some better opportunity now .
Overall 5 years of experience
Incident Management Profile

Ikon or epic pass for NE skiing?

How long were you an SAE before promoting to AS?

I have 7 years of experience in Finance.(more friendlyin AR). Looking for a job change can any one please refer me. Due to low pay I am looking for a change

How much TC can I expect if I go to a small family shop PE firm in a role that does both investment side and ops side? Trying to see if it makes sense to leave my current job where my TC is around $200k as a senior

I left an investment bank to join a private equity firm about a month ago. I am now working on a deal that I previously worked on when I was on the sellside (I literally made the entire CIM). Any tips on how to handle this? Is it fine to tell my current firm everything I know about the company?

We are a US startup and I'm looking for talented Senior Product Designers to join our team in Gdansk, Poland, where we have our development team. I'm having trouble finding experienced candidates. Any tips on where I should look?

Sr Digital Analyst with MBA and 4 Years experience ?

MTS 1 & 2 salary range
Stack: Salesforce

If anyone can help

At an all inclusive Sheraton in PV. Room service is included? excuse me while I pig out in my room all day while I stare at the beach from my window.

The current state of the White House is like Lindsay Logan's life in 2007.

Insights into the best consulting firms for public service/ nonprofit work?

Any book recommendations for philosophy, psychology, and business? Or any book you read last year changed your values? Going to fly international, gonna read it on flight. 😍

When you find out your peers are compensated more even though your rating and utilization is higher :(

So i forgot to move my 401k over from my old job a few years ago. Never done it since because I didn’t want to incur penalties. Moving job again, can I do it now?

Is there a hard limit on how frequent you can apply in a year at FAANG? (For instance: Amazon, Google)

Also, how many positions are we allowed to apply?
There are just many positions at different teams right.

Does 401k count as savings?

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

Recommendations for a keyboard? I’m quite illiterate in this topic, and I ordered a random one off Amazon and it’s quite noisy, and not very ergonomic

Best consulting firms for work-life balance? I know consulting is chaotic in nature, but just curious to see which ones are the best in dealing with this?

Odds T2/Big 4 will follow MBB pay bumps?

Anyone else feel the customer service at W hotels is really bad?

Ugh! Got 2 hours left in a 14 hour drive with younger sis. Both of us getting on each other's nerves and I hate road trips. Help fbfam! Anything entertaining? 😔

how badly does a project have to go for the team to get fired?

Top consulting firms in the Aerospace / Aviation,l or Defense / Intelligence spaces? Looking for business or tech strategy jobs here

Lots of us are skilled at delivery but most sales books seem to focus on the pitch and closing... What are your best resources for learning to develop and nurture strong, lasting client relationships?