Happy Friday 🐠!

What is meant by a "Lateral Hire" in Infosys?

I have been in client facing wealth management as an advisor for 10 years. I haven’t built a book of business because I’ve worked for mostly discount brokers (Merrill edge, TDA, Etrade). I want to know how to transition to a non client facing role in wealth management or another financial role. I am series 7 and series 66 licensed. Any thoughts?

Should you add your credentials in your email signature? Would love to hear your thoughts. I have an MBA mentioned in mine and I’ve heard mixed feedback about it on the internet. I value my education, also, they paid for my MBA so obviously they want employees to have one.

Let's have a productive conversation about the Google employee who was just fired for his controversial diversity memo

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

Hi fishes,

I have passed first round of interview with aws.

Now they are asking me to schedule next round of 4 hrs long interview.
My question is what to expect in this 4 hr round interview what kind of questions will be thrown on my way.

Any help will be appreciated.
Thank you.

Anyone ready for NYC gathering?

Any houston folks here?

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

I am going through a divorce right now. I currently have a (my) family member stay with me to help take care of my children (until the divorce is finalized). My ex is oppose to my family member staying in the same house and decided to serve a notice to vacancy. However, I live in CA (community property state), and both of our names are on the title. Does my ex have any legal grounds to take such action to evict my visiting family member?

I had a sex dream about my senior, but I have a boyfriend. Am I terrible? Has this happen to anyone else?

Hi folks,


I have been assigned to one client project.... During a client interview they have asked qns in my relevant technology but after getting into the project they put me in different tech... Which I have never worked at before...
That project is short term and they are asking to complete the development within 2 weeks and I am the only one resource... I told my tech skills to my pm... He said no other resources is available to replace you.... What should I do now....

Has anyone gone thru a vendor onboarding with InterPublic group (IPG)? Who can tell me what it’s like / what’s involved? We just won a project and in curious… I hear the vendor onboarding / setup is lengthy and “intense” but would love to know how long it takes and what do they need from you that makes it “intense?”

Looking for non- fiction book recommendations. I just read Shoe Dog and loved it.

Any way of being in Ey s&o and being local? As in, is there a team that mostly does projects that are local (NYC)

Deloitte Consulting's M&A team is hiring IT M&A professionals for their Dubai office (United Arab Emirates, Middle East)

If interested, please reach out for more color

ACCA and CPA qualifications. How useful are they in the line of consulting. I work in the M&A space focusing on FDD. Happy to have a chat to see what qualifications if any are actually useful in our line of work.

Do industry professionals involved in M&A sign to close and integration work long hours too or do they peace out at 6

How are Corporate Development and Corporate Finance roles different in Industry? Is one sub set of another?

Looking to break into investment banking M&A as a lateral analyst. Been doing Valuations for almost a year (graduated spring 2018 from ug). I've practiced modeling and finance questions. Cont...

What are the best exit opportunities after working in ODD, CDD, valuations for a few years? IB? PE possible?

Anyone have insight into GMs Corp Dev team? Was reached out to by a recruiter there. Cheers all!

Anyone have any insight to what it is like working at M Klein Investment Boutique? Any insight, I know it’s banking so I am not unrealistic, but any honest feedback or things to be careful of would be awesome.

Any insight into TCS M&A group? They reached out offering $200k for an M&A specialist role and would be a significant jump from my current salary. Unsure what they do in M&A space since they focus largely on delivery vs strategy

I'm leaving Deloitte (consultant - capital markets) for an analyst role in M&A (in house) in a relatively small company. How long should I stay and how hard is it gonna be if I want to join an IB or rejoin a consultancy ?

🍁November Job Thread

Do you know of any opening or opportunity? Share it in the comments below!

Help another Fish. 🤝

Does experience in financial due diligence with Big4 ensure good future opportunities ? Also how good is it for an MBA finance considering the majority of crowd I have found being CA on LinkedIn..

TIA

Why do private equity firms use M&A consultants?

Can someone tell me about FDD? Is it intense work that doesn’t get paid well?

AM here with corporate finance (M&a) experience just moved to the US to marry my American fiancé but having a really hard time landing a job right now. Job apps that match my background and requirements almost always gets rejected immediately. What should I do?

trying to make a move into FDD...any insight into how i should prepare, know, gain skills etc. for interview and networking!

Do you think M&A playbooks are needed for teams with a limited M&A capability?

Hey everybody, I work in Healthcare Consulting (9m of prior M&A experience) and have an upcoming PwC Deals Contracts Analytics associate interview next week, any PwC D&T/M&A folks willing to connect, share their experience and provide any insights for nailing the interview?