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The real walk of shame is leaving work before everyone else on your team..esp when you're an analyst

Hi Fishes!

I'm a fresher, placed at EY as a business consulting risk analyst. I will be joining by the end of this month
Would love to hear your experiences, advice, tips and things I can do to be well prepared.

Excited to be a part of this group.
Cheers
Tx

Hi Fishes,
Can anyone tell me about EY FT-GBS ? What kind of work they do and what should I expect in the interviews?
TIA

Hello Guys,

Could please name the PSU BANK projects with EY ?
How is the work load in PSU projects ?

What's the salary for assistant manager at EY GDS Strategy and Transactions?

Why are Product Design portfolios so boring? Has anyone seen a good one lately?

How hard is it to get accepted now? I've heard the acceptance rate has gone down in the last years

Is anyone applying for gsap and wanting to talk to someone else about application? I feel like nobodys talking about it

It's been a challenging year for me, including a rejection from GSAP. This week, I got into my top choice MBA program - and an M7 to boot! Just goes to show that sometimes Deloitte's decisions can be misaligned to the greater world.
I hope that Deloitte gives me the chance to be a good brand ambassador - but at the point, it's up to the firm if I even consider coming back :)

Has anyone in GPS heard anything or is this just commercial?

What are your client follow-up/communication policies or practices? I’m hearing more and more that clients don’t like the long periods of time with little to no contact. From my perspective, since I bill for my time, unless I have an update or need something, I don’t initiate a call. Also, clients hold on to important info and don’t initiate a call cause they’re waiting for me to communicate with them.

Does anyone have experience working for or using Sylvan Learning Centers?

Have an offer from AWS for an L7 Principal PMT role: $215k base + $275k sign on bonus for Year 1 and $215k for year 2 + 5100 RSUs (@ $130 / share). This is the initial offer; where is there room for negotiation? Base or Sign on Bonus or RSUs? I realize it's a good offer, but I'm looking for: $225k base + existing sign on + 5500 RSUs. Does that sound like a decent counter?

Hi

Has anyone from the cognizant registered BH for a car in Pune or Maharashtra? And are they allowing it? As per rules its allowed but I heard RTO is declining the request

Anyone from Huron on the group? I see booming Oracle Cloud things on there, want to know more - Risk and Controls guy from PwC.

What is the salary of manager at Macquarie Group, Gurugaon with 10 years of experience? Tech stack full stack developer with strong Java and azure experience.

What are some good websites, news sites, and sources to keep updated on M&A news and trends?

When you work sell side, to what extent are you trying to find skeletons in the closet? This is my first sell side and I feel like we’re not digging hard enough, which seems counterproductive.

Recommendations on how to simultaneously pay off student loans and invest?

Worst luck ever. My group was very slow from Jan through may, so I won’t hit my hours, but am now (and will continue to be) very busy…. About to do 1990 hrs the most painful way possible. Fml.

Fish, I trust your advice. Anyone have leads or recruiter recs for SF biglaw litigation? Looking to lateral as a to-be second year, mostly antitrust/white collar.

Thinking about making a jump from my V50 litigation group. 10 years experience. What are some top paying government jobs? And how much could I hope to earn?

Random partner asked a litigation-related question to a partner I frequently work with (i’m a transactional associate). My partner cc’d me and said for me to briefly look. Asked the library. They got me a great case. Sent it back. Now the random partner is asking for more cases in another circuit.

I haven’t done caselaw research since 1L and this isn’t even my practice… wtf do I do (I am fully utilized in my normal work and have a few deals closing soon…)

What do you hate about BigLaw?
I actually love it. I was a paralegal in BL during law school. Maybe I am use to the environment? What am I missing? Help me remove the rose colored glasses. The cases are interesting, pay is fantastic, offices are beautiful, and the research resources are a big reason why I never want to leave. Sure there are partners/senior associates that don’t respect you or your time. That happens everywhere and would mean you need to move firms or sections. What am I missing?

When do you switch from first-year to second-year at your firm in terms of salary - at the end of the firm’s fiscal year or January 1? For context, my firm’s fiscal year ends in November and the annual billing requirements restart then.

Don’t you find it funny how mids and seniors applaud no raises for juniors because said juniors are useless and yet refuse to come into the office to train said juniors? Big Law is a total farce. I’ll keep sitting here by myself and maybe one day won’t be so useless, maybe by magic.

Tips for bankruptcy associates who eventually want to move in-house? 3rd year associate in bankruptcy/restructuring group doing mainly bk lit but a few deals too. Need to stay in BL for at least another year for the money, but eventually want to move in-house. The path to in-house seems more straightforward for general commercial lit or more standard transactional practices. Any tips for someone who’s practice is a bit of a hybrid (and who will never likely do discovery or handle a depo)

Any boutique firms that do IP and don’t have billable hours? (I already know of BB)

Associate at an AmLaw 100 firm doing patent work. I applied to a part time masters program to try to pivot to a different technical field (still doing patent work, but in something that interests me more than what I’m doing now). Do I try to stick it out at the firm while getting the masters, ask for a reduced hours schedule, or get a part time, non-legal job so I can focus more on the program (one year).

Why does it feel like everyone year 5 and senior is married? Even the ones that went straight through?

Junior Associates - How much student loan debt are you and your peers in these days? A few young partners and counsel at my firm were discussing the student loan moratorium and most of us were convinced we could have paid the majority of our loans off with the bonuses associates got these last two years. But we are all old and when we graduated 150k to 200k was about the max student loan debt people graduated with. So educate me. What is the average student loan debt these days?

What are top firms for a Real Estate practice? Chicago mainly

Is it normal for a firm to require you to complete a conflicts check/questionnaire BEFORE they provide you an offer?

Give me the strength to set a boundary today and do something fun instead of waiting by my computer for emails

From a vault ranking perspective, is it safe to assume V100 is all sweatshop big law? Reason I ask is because I want to lateral but not to a gunning big law firm — want to stay in big law but not at the ones at the top of the food chain like I am now. Want some sort of work life balance and wondering if the “lower ranked” big law firms offer this? Could just be my fantasy though…

Anyone here deal with Phantom Share Agreements? Would that be in the wheelhouse for an ECVC lawyer? My BIL is being offered a job with a company and received a proposed phantom shares agreement. One condition states that he must remain in good standing with the company even after the 3 year vesting period to receive distributions. Is that atypical?

After you are stealth laid off, other than job search, what do you do? I assume they won’t give you work and even if they do, you can politely decline? How do you feel about you are not progressing anymore and seeing other people progressing in their career? I have no intention to make partner, but still feel a bit stuck not doing that much.

Are tech trans hours better/more predictable than M&A?