Do lower COLarea big law/non-big laws have lower billable hours requirements? I mean "real” expectations, not just what they put in their advertisement.
Will l still be expected to reply to emails after9:00pm? And always quickly respond after 8:00 am, at least?
Corporate transactions. I like to practice law, need more sleep, though.

How do you get out of the burnout cycle? I’ve felt overwhelmed for a while and now I’m in the “can’t function at all” stage. It’s so hard explaining this to my manager because I already have a workload that’s lighter than others (not because of performance or my request). Any tips on how to get re-engaged, since the overwhelming feeling will come back?

How is the career in Pursuits in any Big 4? Does it pay as good as core consulting work? How is the work life balance? I want to make a shift from client chargeable work to BD work for better work life balance. Is it worth switching?

Can anyone suggest between Capita plc and KPMG india in terms of wlb and good work?

I’m on the consulting side (FDD) and I’m curious if there are PE firms with good WLB. I’m happy with my pay, growth, and hours. PE interests me but I don’t understand why anyone would want to consistently work 65+ hours a week every week. What’s the appeal? Making double the pay? What’s the exit plan?

Anyone working at COMPASS Pathways right now? Would be curious to learn more about the company, culture, WLB etc.

Any insight on Hunton Andrews Kurth Real Estate practice group? Work life balance, type of people in the group etc. Anything at all would be helpful!

Does anyone have experience working for a ALSP? How does compensation work (pay and benefits)? Are you an employee or technically an IC? Do you have billable requirements like at a firm? How do you think it prepared you to potentially move in house? I'm currently at a firm but thinking of taking a position with an ALSP but my goal is to go in house.

Which one is ideal in terms of WLB and job security?

Altimetric
Epam
Encora

Interested in hearing from anyone who jumped from consulting to an AD or D position in med comms / marketing or medical affairs role, in a pharma / biotech (not agency).

How have you found the new role, transition, WLB & TC ?

10 years in the company where I started, working my way up from jr. analyst to present Manager M2 - Market and Tech Insights (5 levels), handling 2 major global tech/consulting clients. Next level is Sr. Manager.

I'm at Kolkata. Started off with 1.8LPA, currently around 11LPA. BTech+MBA. Always get scores of 4 out of 5 (exceeds expectations) KRA YoY and pointless praises about how well I managed projects, yada yada. I get good work-life balance.

Is this fair pay or am I exploited?

How are you able to do heavy exercises after work? My body heats up and my sleep suffers. How do you work the next day?

Hi all,
I'm 7.4 years experienced, currently working in TCS with 10.91LPA. I have below offers in hand, kindly suggest me best offer in terms of work life balance and job security.
1. Infosys -14.1L fixed, Technology Lead position
2. DXC Technology - 17.5L fixed, Prof II Product Developer position
3. Capgemini - 17.1L fixed, Senior Consultant position.

TIA

I have 2 offers in hand - Global Logic - 23 LPA fixed , Tech Mahindra - 26.5 (including variable).
Which one is good for job security , work life balance and hike and all.

Need your inputs pls

Do you feel that you are earning ENOUGH? Satisfied with your pay and wlb?

Is thought works a good organization to join , in terms of job security and work life balance ?

Hi Team,

Need one suggestion, I have two below offers:
1. Hitachi Vantara (37LPA including 8%variable + 2.5L joining bonus)
2. Hashedin by deloite (37LPA) but it's around 36km for from my room.

Please suggest who one can I joined W. R. T. Work life balance.

Eoy:8 years
Designation : Technical lead.

How is productivity measured for in-house attorneys? Is there any analog of billable hours for in-house lawyers?

What is the market like for entry level data scientists/ data analyst. I have a graduate certificate in data science and have spent the last 27 years as a mainframe dev so I have great SQL skills.

What is the salary of newly joined Tax Associate in PwC IAC ?

Hey Guys, What's up? Is Altimetrik is good enough to stay for long time? Joined sometime back still unaware of real truth. how they will behave when we will go through bench??

Hi All,

EPAM system - 12 LPA + 2 L joining bonus
ALTIMETRIK -13 LPA + 1L joining

Which one to choose pour your ideas?

Looking for a job opportunity in a Automation Testing role . I have Overall Experience 2.4 years. Currently serving notice period.
Kindly let me know if there is any testing roles

I am getting an offer of 12lpa fixed from EY GDS. YoE 5 years. Cybersecurity domain. My fixed was at 8.7 lpa. How is the offer? Rank is 44.

How much time takes to issue the offer letter in Schneider electric after HR round?

Anyone looking for a Sr Business systems analyst? 5 years of experience in System Integrations as lead BA and scrum master.

How long does it take you to remote in?

I always thought of Oracle as the evil empire, but for real, what's it like working for them?

Found an attractive posting and I don't want to pass up something good over an opinion I formed as a high school linux geek.

Just spent a week at Revelstoke BC and that place is ridiculous! They already had 27’ of snow so far this season and it snowed every day we were there. Not for beginners and endless tree skiing and cliff hucking (if interested). Great town vibe and worth the effort to get there. Visited Fernie BC on my last trip and highly recommend that place too!

Anyone looking to sell (Military Veteran-Heavy) book?
Ideal Individuals for me and extremely rewarding. #SemperFidelis

Dating a girl with Barney's discount #winning

I wouldn’t even mind the hours of this job if people were kinder.

I wonder if she'll prefer Madam President, Ms. President, or Mrs. President? We'll find out in a couple weeks but ladies, what would you opt for?

How much package should a data engineer get for 3 year exp?

What are some tips or recommendations on where to start to become a product manager? Much appreciated

Best podcasts for personal financial management?

I just got laid off — anyone else get hit this round? ☹️

Do you think the “great resignation” was applicable to big law associates? Are these people ever coming back?

Senior attorneys at v100, how common is it for attorneys who start at small firms to lateral to biglaw? Have you worked with any? Conventional wisdom is always that if you don’t start there it’s hard to “trade up”. My coworker and I just did it to two different great v30 firms, and I’m wondering if it’s really that uncommon? Just out of curiosity. We’re not special counsel with special niche skills or anything, just associates. Pitfalls to beware? Positives?

1st yr at a nyc v50 firm doing general transactional work. I know the lateral market for transactional lawyers is hot but not as hot for juniors. I just want a change of scenery because my current firm is bleeding good associates / not giving great training imo / and just seems small. Would lateralling this early feasible? Would it look bad on my resume?

Great Idea: Let's mandate RTO industry-wide to kick off flu season.

As a first year - if you like working with a particular partner a lot, is it a good idea to just volunteer for all the work they have for you to do, or is it better to try to get a balance of different work from the practice group? Not trying to come off like Incrediboy.

Explain to me like I’m 5. Why does the monthly billable hours goal on things like Intellistat change month to month. I’m not hitting hours this year. Last month goal was 158. This months goal is 180.

A partner I work for keeps asking for ETA's on assignments I have already submitted to the senior associate on the deal for review. Does it sound like I'm throwing the senior associate under the bus if I say I have already submitted to senior associate and am waiting for feedback? I feel like the partner will get upset at me even more if my answer sounds like I haven't submitted the assignment to the senior associate yet.

Let’s talk speed reading. I’m a slow reader and listened to a podcast recently on speed reading. I’m intrigued. Who here speed reads? How did you learn those skills, and what types of documents do you speed read in practice? I do mostly litigation and am thinking that speed reading would help with research but maybe not things like doc review where you need to review for both responsiveness and privilege.

Im a third year and my current firm isn't bad and I'm pretty comfortable here. Im satisfied most of the time. There is one firm I've been keeping my eyes on because of its similarities to where I currently am (nice people, similar hours, culture).

Im a bit burned out now and I would love to take a long break. I'm hoping I can take a break (2 months) between the transition but is this a good reason to move though? Would you move in my situation? Im sure there will be a signing bonus.

Did first set of redlines for a partner. Have ten years experience doing what this partner does but I am new to working with him. Said I did about a 7 out of 10 on that job. Not sure how to feel about that. What say you all? :) Keep in mind I asked for a 1 to 10 because I cannot talk to him about it for a week or so.

When your clients have more compassion about delays than your colleagues…

Anyone have any insight into the financial services practice group at Troutman Pepper?

What are staff attorney hours like?

Can I give notice by email? Or is it truly preferred to call the partners directly? What if they don’t pick up?

What states have a big law market where I can get the most out of my dollar? Also currently work for CA firm, if I move to another state does the state tax rate switch to where I live?

I’m so f*cking scared of fucking something up, getting fired and then being unemployable…

When you meet with a partner for a new assignment. Do you bill for that time? I’m a new associate, so I don’t know. On the one side it seems that meeting and conferring for an assignment requested by the the client would be billable since it’s using firm time and resources. On the other side, we are just talking about how to tackle the assignment and not tackling the assignment itself.

Does biglaw give out swag bags to lateral hires working remotely?

If a senior associate asks you to review a document for typos on an email thread with the partners, do you send the reviewed document back to the senior associate or to the whole thread with the partners?

Leaving after one year to another biglaw firm?