Hello, rest of the advertising folks on the bowl. How is agency life going for you? Is there any agency that isn’t being run into the ground right now? Seems like every other person I talk to has some issue or the other with their agency and the leadership.

What are the levels at Slalom? How do they correlate with EY levels. Pay Range for Senior and Manager?

PPR or Reg?

Any Accenture and slalom fish know what I can expect coming into either with 4 yrs of experience into the salesforce practice?

I uploaded documents after HR discussion last week but not yet received any update after follow ups with CGI.. Shall I ignore or consider them since my joining in a week. CGI .

Do you consider Dallas to be "conservative"?

Buying a new construction single fam house in PA suburbs. Already Signed the contract and Looking for a lender with lower interest rate. Anyone come across comparable lower IR lenders? Any insight is appreciated! :)

Hi All,

I had an offer as a business analyst in HDFC BANK and CAPGEMINI.May I know which is better in terms of WLB...
Yoe 14 year
HDFC 23 LPA
Capgemini 22LPa

Hi fish,
After how many days of Capgemini L2 round can i expect hr call. Thanks in advance

Hi Fishes anyone here working in ADDA project

Does any one know UK onsite salary for manager role for short term

Thoughts on Pfizer’s canvas for developing emails and iDetails?

I am working for a client in infosys and the project is in initial stage and the go live is somewhere in January.

Now the thing is this project has lot of toxic people from client team and they play blame games on daily basis.

I am working as a team lead here and want to get deallocated from this project.

Please help me with right approach and save my soul.

Does anyone feel robbed? We waited 8 years for Night King to die of a sneak attack? I havent watched Endgame yet but that’s like Thanos dying cause Antman crept up on him

Anybody read Ants Among Elephants? Thoughts?

YOE : 7.8 i have an offer from IBM and HCL.
IBM : 18 fixed + 1 JB HCL : 21 ( 18 fixed + 1lakh approx (monthly variable) + 2 lakh Annual variable ) . Now i have a discussion pending with Robert Bosch , What should i quote ! Which will be better for job security and work life and overall career growth .

I was one of the first people to get a CSR when it first came out - can I downgrade to a CSP and get the CSP bonus? Or how do I take advantage of the 100k CSP signup bonus?

Did you/would you get booster during pregnancy?

CA native here thinking about life in another city, state for a better quality of life. Richmond, VA and Galveston, TX have come up. Any insight on either? Or other places?

Anyone have a recommendation for books or resources on upping my sales game? Open to in person class, online class, books, etc!

What programs, sites, etc does your agency use to track time? I work at a small agency and looking to implement tracking on my team across client/project level.

I read a lot of posts here about difficult bosses, difficult clients, difficult partners, terrible briefs and terrible agencies. All that might be true. But it’s getting old. What I’d be interested in hearing about are the stories of how people have overcome the challenges. How did you sell that big idea? How did you fix a relationship? The world is not going to get easier. So maybe we can help each other get better at dealing with it. Who had a win recently? How did you do it?

People whose spouses work in time consuming jobs like doctors and lawyers how the eff do you tend to your home life? My kitchen looks like an animal attacked it.

I’m looking to make the move to London — what are good smaller shops there? Any recommendations for how to take the plunge into shifting from the states to there? How to get an in into networking etc

Do LinkedIn skills endorsements mean anything? Has any recruiter said... "Whoa! She's got 47 people that think she's a great writer... we gotta get her in here!" ?

How do you know if that phone interview went well?

Does anyone know what the Twitter DM threats to I believe a female strategist were about? Seen a ton of tweets about it but have no context.

What do you do when a team member was added to your team at a senior associate level but hasn’t been up to the role in the last month? He is not my direct report nor did I interview him (very frustrating). I don’t have time to train them up especially because their baseline is very low i.e not knowing how to calculate cost per click.. help

On the job hunt in London and considering a portfolio website. Thoughts on how to manage that with NDAs?

LA folks, how do you meet people in this city? Just moved here and have some friends but am eager to meet more. Any tips?

Places in NYC hiring sr creative teams?

Advice needed!
I have been a strategy and planning associate for a year and a half (first job out of college), I found that I'm not really cut out for this sector of advertising and would like to get more into the creative area. I've applied to countless copywriting jobs but only get rejections. Does anyone have any advice? Are there other areas I should be looking? I'm getting so discouraged at this point so any feedback would be helpful.

When, if ever, is it appropriate to consult your SO about creative?

Any tips for securing freelance work with US agencies when you live abroad? My work is pretty solitary and I could fly in for workshops or a major presentation.

which agencies in the city are creative driven rather than account driven

Would you work for Facebook considering they’re allowing political ads that spread disinformation and could influence our next election?

Anyone watching “The Facts of Life” & “Different Strokes” live special on ABC right now? All the retro commercials in the ad breaks are dope. If not, I’ll tape it for you.