Hello Fishes,

I hope you’re all doing well. Does anyone have insights or advice on the case study interviews at AlixPartners for a Vice President role?

Best regards,

Has anyone’s landlord ask to come and take picture of your apartment for their insurance? Shouldn’t this be done before someone moves in?

Question for funds folks, since no one is around to answer any questions and I can't seem to find this answer anywhere. Why can't a placement agent combine or integrate the offering of interests in the sponsor's fund with the contemporaneous offering of interests in another fund? Is it based on reputational risk or from a sales perspective in case someone rejects both funds, any other issues? Thanks!

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.

Any luck for US CPA in Canada?

Is the OPEC-Russia alliance gone for good? Pretty surprised to see the price war

Excellent. Been holding onto some cash and just bought a ton of DNT, REQ, VEN, and DIVX. Let's do this.

How do you get ahead on work during the weekends? Do you have a no work on the weekends policy?

Does anyone know where I can go for a short period of time to get a business work setup? Two monitors + keyboard + mouse and good WiFi? I have a timed case study coming up and would ideally go into the office to do it but it is closed and i don’t have a good wfh setup.

Gosh I am so nervous about Sterling background check - had a couple of unpaid informal internships in college years ago, only email offer and correspondence and reference do not respond (all left).

Has anyone heard of Applied Innovation Exchange at Capgemini? Looks interesting. If so, I would appreciate to comment/chat here or through DM. Thank you!

Are there any good books to read to understand investment banking?

Do you have a favorite movie or show character with ADHD? It’s difficult to meet others with same issues but was hoping to watch something.

How's the wlb here?

Does anyone take on freelance jobs while full time at an agency?

What is the market salary for a 10 year Salesforce Developer in Bangalore?.

Have you walked away from somebody you loved? And why?

Anyone in Chicago have recommendations for places to watch shop? Looking in the few hundred $ range. In the city today and disappointed by the selection at Nordstrom and I’m pretty sure Macy’s closed.

By the way, can we take a minute to acknowledge that Lana is real?!? 😳😱

Would now be a good time to start investing and buying stocks? They are on sale but also this thing coulda go on fire a while.. and cash is king. Also, what brokerage firm do you recommend?

Has anyone switched to a standing desk? Do you feel more productive? Was it worth it? Did you switch at the office or at your home?

Do you charge your time to BD or Project code for on boarding activities (e.g. calls, reviewing materials) ? Prior to getting to the client site.

Selling sunsets: do million dollar home showings really have agents dressed up like its a Met Gala event?

Poll: What dress code do you follow at your home office?

Anyone in YPO? I imagine I’m not going to get many who say it’s “not worth it” but what makes it better than EO or any other org?

Anyone else in consulting feel like you don’t have principals/partners that stand up for you? On a project where the project team (including our principal) and client sponsors collaborated on an awesome roadmap and the client leadership (aka PEG) wasn’t buying it. The principal on the project didn’t say a word when we reviewed it with the PEG to help back us up. Back to square 1. How do you all address this?

Consultants who’ve switched to tech firms in mid career (~7 yoe): what are your roles now, what was your consulting expertise, how did u pivot? Yes I’m googling too, this is part of my research. Thx!!

90% utilization, great snapshots BUT no relationships with the partners in my practice + currently on beach. Everyone I've worked with is shocked. Was told there were HC quotas. Not meritocratic.

What are some concrete reasons why someone in consulting would be fired, other than the obvious stupid things?

Who the hell pulls out a cigar on descent and just holds it in their mouth??

Confronted client today about partner forcing us to travel while client site has travel restrictions. As a result is team is remote next week. Counting down days till I get rolled off/fired now lol

Question for Goggins & Jocko Fans: How do you use their messaging to get you motivated on work related activities - such as delivering quality work, finishing that slide deck or prepping for an interview? It appears that they are more geared towards motivating the couch potato in to exercising.

I wonder how Jocko would handle consulting life :)

Found out today I got accepted into a Professional MBA program that I was seriously doubting I’d get into 😃😃😃 maybe it wasn’t such a Monday after all

This is going to be a stupid question but I’ll ask anyway. Receiving 10k as a gift, Any tips on investing for short term growth.

Did anyone read the top consulting firms to work for? 😂😂😂

What are some of the must read books in Management Consulting?

What is the best way to inherit a $2M house? Trying to minimize taxes and the equity isn’t needed for the parents.