Hello fellow midwest 🐠

Looking for practical tips and strategies for becoming comfortable as in-house counsel (I.e., anything more specific than the generalized advice to “be a business partner” and “learn the business.”). What’s the best way to stay organized? Should I proactively reach out to business teams to see if they need anything? How long did it take you to become comfortable in your role?

Would taking a director of legal operations position (jd preferred or a plus) make it hard to get back to practicing in a firm or another company?

How's work life balance, working hours and projects (salesforce testing) at KPMG Global Services.

Looking for a bilingual (Spanish/English) para or esl teacher for a charter school in Minneapolis

Help me save the day: have a massive excel file (600k rows) with duplicate records (column a, b and c are duplicate, not a duplicate if a and b are the same though). How can I filter for just these records? If it didn’t crash excel I could concat into one column, Conditional format for duplicates, and sort by color. What’s a work around?

Hello friendly Fishes I am in the final stages of a senior lead role ( non tech ) at Wells Fargo. Can you tell me how’s the culture ? Is it too intense ? Weekend work? Slow paced ? I’m coming from Goldman Sachs

What is the job security for people on bench in HCS? I have joined HCS almost a month and a half and yet to be assigned to a project. I am worried if it would negatively affect my position in HCS. Kindly help with your answers.

Do Nokia office in noida provide cab and food facilities. @NOKIA

Any tips for how to maximize property damage insurance claim?

I'm 1st time landlord and my single tenant in Seattle unfortunately overdosed on cocaine+pills 5 days before found in kitchen. :( Extensive damage.

Seeking tips - ex. contractor validating damage was on highest cost cabinets & flooring, replace all tile/grout, contractors upbid damage value (within reason).

Too many are advising being bold w insurance companies we all pay for most our lives, but open to all advice.

If you were an independent PM Consultant, what PM software or tool would you use and why? Asana, Monday, or stick to Excel?

Hi Folks,

Welcome to all of you. I created this bowl specifically for strategy consulting professionals in India.

Given the niche nature of strategy consulting, it would be pertinent to have a forum where we can discuss, vent out on topics that strategy consulting folks would more relate to.

Folks from Accenture Strategy, Bain, BCG, Deloitte S&O, EY strategy, Kearney, KPMG strategy, LEK, Monitor, PWC Strategy, Strategy& + any other core strategy consulting folks are welcome to join.

Any tips for job searching while currently employed? I'm finding it hard to have the mental energy to job search after a long day at my current job (I've been leaving at 6-7pm often ugh).

Currently 31 with 6.5 YOE and single . Should have NW of 250k by end of this year. (No significant assets in India). Considering this money all reminds invested I should have a decent nest egg for retirement. Have an LIC policy that will be worth arnd 50 lakhs when I surrender it (plan down payment for an apartment). Struggling to convince parents this should be enough for me to move back. They think I should move back when I have more financial security. What more should I plan for ?

How is CBA Bangalore in terms of Work Culture and Work Life Balance ? Is company expecting to work from office?

Has someone here moved recently to UK from India? Have some questions on moving around rent, luggage, visa etc. TIA.

Hi folks, could you update me on how are the firms in UK handling the uk economy and the upcoming recession? Have they already stopped hiring, delayed appraisals?

How easy is it to switch firms on Skilled worker visa?

Add a comment with the designation levels in your bank.

Anyone hear about mid years yet?

For those who observe - hope folks are having a great Good Friday and heading into a great Easter weekend! For those that don't, hoping today is a little quieter and you can recharge this weekend!

I’m an incoming CDP Analyst at Accenture Midwest. What is the typical performance bonus that I can expect for a first year analyst?

Does anyone know the pay increase from Analyst to Senior Analyst for Midwest/Chicago office?

Anyone going back into the Chicago office soon?

Anyone go back to the office yet or start meeting up with other analysts? Have you met your people lead yet in person?

Why doesn’t anyone post in here?? When are we all going to hang out? Who’s up for drinks? Coffee?

Funny almost half the members in this bowl are MDs....

Rolling off surge work and onto my first client project. Anything I need to be aware of for folks that recently have done it?

When do we get to know mid year promotion results

Do you think we’ll ever travel again or will we be remote forever?

Anyone actually using this VR thing? Beat Sabre all day.

Any embarrassing moments so far in your first projects?

How are you using your $250 tech spend??

Anyone else’s projects not have much work?

How is Tell Day shaking out for everyone? Any good surprises? My bonus was smaller than I thought, but did get promoted to Consultant!

When are reviews? What does everyone have prepared outside of contributions PPT and PA tool?

When traveling for work can we use our personal credit card for expenses or do we have to use the corporate Amex? Also does our corporate Amex get points/perks that we can use for personal usage?

At my fiancés company they are able to use a personal card (which then they get all the points and perks) and then just expensive to they company.

How many of you fishes have yet to step foot in an Accenture office? Thoughts on going back?