Hi fellow consultants - I am working on an internal project for my company. I am hoping you can help with 3 easy questions:
1. What company do you work for?
2. From a timesheet/utilization standpoint, what does your company consider as a work week? (e.g, 40 hours, 50 hours)
3. How many hours are you expected to work in a week?

Hi Fishes,

I received an offer (28 Lakhs + 3.9 Lakhs incentive) from Novartis for Sr Project Manager yesterday. This was just 13.6% more than my current earnings as Project Manager. I've given the reasons why I deserve at least 30% to HR. In response to that, HR has sent 2nd offer i.e. 29 Lakhs + 4 Lakhs incentive + 50k sign-on bonus. The 2nd offer is just 18.2% higher than my current earnings. Need your suggestion, if I could still negotiate with HR to finalize deal by asking for 25% hike?

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Going through a mental breakdown and don't know how to deal with it
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Just stepped into a manager role from an IC role so struggling even more
Single and lonely, wfh especially getting to my head
Family pressure to get married
So many people among ralatives and colleagues down with COVID
All the things playing on my mind together and driving me crazy

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Anyone know of tech companies hiring project coordinators right now?

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Cognizant vs mindtree

Which one will you choose, consider that the pkg is the same.

Both hiring on project

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As a manager, how do you expect your employee to deal with a diffcult customer?

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Hi friends! I’m looking for resources to help me be successful in a “Functional Lead” role.

The role is in FinTech
I’m responsible for strategy, comms and key partnerships for a bank product. It reports through Customer Experience but touches product, Ops. marketing. It’s basically a Project Manager role but more nuanced.

Anyone out there in a role like this? Any books. videos or even best practices to share?

A bunch of us just responded that if we have a good team, the hours don't bother us as much. What are your tips to being a good manager/director?

MBAs and Strategy Consultants:

If you were to do it all over, what is the most efficient way to become a “master” at case interviewing? Read each MBA program’s consulting club’s case books? Then practice? If yes, is there any specific order/sequence of case types to prepare for?

Major client found sig. errors in report. Manager blamed me for faulty work. Partner offered 1mo PIP or 2 mo severance. Have written proof work was manager’s, partner didn’t care. What would u do?

How firm is the 30 percent of income for rent Max. Some cities this is presenting me an issue, namely Miami. My budget can afford it, but spending just a bit more gets me a good unit vs an old one. With the amount of money I'm already going to pay an extra 300 or 4k a year is not that much extra

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Alpinist >>>> 14 Peaks
And it’s not close

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🐠 who deal with severe chronic pain - Do you have a good way to talk to a new job (or I guess new project) about how sometimes you are just going to have to miss randomly or going to need a break to deal with the pain? —— please no able-bodied responses of just deal with it etc.

Interview with Amazon for a Business Analyst position next week.
Will have a LiveCode technical round.
The requirements - SQL, Excel, Tableau
Any Advice?

When is McKinsey's contribution to our 401K available on our account? How do you check if it's gone through?

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How many hours do you actually work on fridays?

Wow EY just gave out airpods, I'm looking to join them as a result

Have you questioned your divorce attorney’s billable hours calculation? For example, if I clearly fired an associate from my case and she still comes to the meeting on top of the main person, why am