How’s WLB and comp at Citadel Securities vs. MBB consulting?

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Depends on the role at citadel but better comp, worse WLB, and brutal culture

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Thinking COO group. How much worse are the hours? Currently working 65+ hours to help baseline.

Too militaristic and they turn you into a good ole boy

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Hi All,

I am a big data Engineer with a total experience of 4.5 years. My current CTC is 13.95L and fixed is 11.53 L
What would be a fair ask from other organisations with 4.5yrs of experience?

Thanks in advance

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Any ideas on JPMC projects in Virtusa... The work life balance in it?

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What is a good salary for a non-tech client-facing director role at a Series B company?

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Hey all thinking of relocating from Canada to Indiana. What is the average pay for an RN at parkview?

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What is Citis C12 equivalence in TD? ( I am in Citi Canada and have offer of L10 at TD Canada)

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Bain & Company Bain or EYP? Pay is the same, consultant level, same city. Bain & Company EY-Parthenon

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Have full-time post-MBA offers from Bain big MCOL City and McKinsey small-ish M/HCOL city. McKinsey city is close to home and where I want to live long term, but I have really vibed with the Bain people.

How do I structure my decision making process?

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Obligatory financial info post. 1) size of firm, 2) billable requirements, 3) salary, 4) bonus, 5) quality of life, 6) debt, and and 7) family/married/single. Go!

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Hello Fishes
Currently I am in a Pharma Procurement for Finished Dosage Forms with 7 YoE and with salary of 23 lakhs/ annum . What should I do to enhance my skills and my salary

I recently gave Capgemini Java B2 Consultant technical interview (java Spring Boot, Functional programming). The interview went well and the interviewer told that HR will contact me. When can I expect a HR round to happen? Please advise.

What is the percentage hike should I expect at the Manager level at Macquarie Group India? Is it range bound or they are offering good hikes to lateral hires?

Hi Everyone,
Im looking for a switch ,
I have 2 years of experience
Having good problem solving skills using java
And my current pacakge is 5.5CTC
So , How much I can expect from switching...
Please Help me

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How much do overnight security/night auditor at hotels make in Atlanta?

Dear fishes, I am having a PwC managerial round. What type of questions should I expect ? YOE : 3, Tech : SAP PP QM

PwC

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Hi folks, how is ZS Associates in terms of wlb for software development track

Is onsite easily available or we need to wait for years in a project?

My offered designation at ZS: senior Software Engineer (associate Consultant role)

ZS Associates

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Hi. Can someone please tell me what is the salary of an Associate consultant for a homegrown associate.

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Hi Everyone !!!

This June I completed my 9 months at Career Level 12 and Sub Level 3 I.e, CL 12.3 at
Accenture Operations. My Annual Talent Discussion and One-on-One with People Lead is complete as of last week.

I have 3 questions now :
1. When can I expect to move to 12.2 ?
2. What is the general hike I can expect ? And when it is reflected ?
3. When will be the variable pay will be paid out ?

Can anyone here help me with this performance cycle part ? I am really confused.

Accenture

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Hi, offer coming through from AWS - is there scope for negotiation with them, or is the offer just the offer?

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What does actually people expect as WLB?

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What is the maximum CTC I can ask during HR discussion?
I am 4 years experienced. Current CTC - 8 LPA. Have another offer for 11.5 LPA.

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Location: Bangalore

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What is the target utilization for a Senior 2? Or number of chargeable hours goal? Is this ever hard to meet?

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Any utilization review nurses working at an insurance company able to share if your company requires work on weekend/holidays? If so, what work do you do on weekend/holidays snd do you work s full day on those days?

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Any CDD / M&A Strategy fish willing to chat?

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Looking to connect and get insights from IBM consulting practice in Canada 🍁

Looking for suggestions on stocks to invest for beginners? Any suggestions on YouTube channels or articles/people to follow to read and stay updated on these things?

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I have an offer from first American and harman shared services . Which one will be better to join considering work life balance .

How much in hand I'll get in Harman shared services?

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Whether its difficult to get GCP Projects in CTS?

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My two year anniversary of starting my career (in general) is coming up in the next 3 weeks.

Aug 2020- 65k base salary
Jan 2022- 80k base salary
July/Aug 2022- 110k base salary


Just posting as a reminder to LEAVE that job (within a reasonable time 😂) and go where the money is!

(p.s. I already know some of you have had higher increases in the same amount of time & I consider 6 months minimum is “within a reasonable time”)

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I have applied for several remote jobs for Elevance health in several different roles. Does anyone have experience as a nurse reviewer and know the salary range and if you work there do you enjoy it? Are the work hours flexible?

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The hostility on my team is rough. We have a yeller. I walked by her room the other day. She was screaming across the room at a student, "you have to be kind to get kindness." Seriously, those were her words in a loud, berating, angry tone. Our admin has asked that we not report these. We are to talk to the teacher. She has yelled at me and other adults. Admin has to know she treats the kids this way too. One teacher has to work with her door closed to not hear the yelling all day.

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Hi,
If joining date is in July in SAP LABS when can we get onboarding mails.
Thanks.

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How's the SAP SuccessFactors practice in Accenture . How's the job security ?
The projects ? And work environment ?

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Thinking about organizing a happy hour for the Boston heads. Leave a sweet buzzword in the replies if you’d be interested.

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What are your thoughts on the future of RPA in the next 10 years considering all the tools/vendors in the market today?

Forgive my ignorance - have about 40k in savings and would like to start investing. I do my 401k thru Vanguard so I’d like use them if possible. What would you suggest for a novice investor?

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Someone please tell me that I can get a rear facing child seat in the back of a mustang… otherwise it looks like I’ll have to buy a new family car to drive the little one around (wife doesn’t drive unfortunately).

Could be a good excuse to get a Taycan but was hoping I could just stick with my mustang. We said next car will be an EV didn’t think it would be so soon though!

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Hi all, I’m looking to learn about how one can transition from PwC AC to PwC India.
I joined PwC AC Bangalore as a fresher and have been working here for 13 months.
I was randomly assigned to SAP, but I’ve realised I really want to move away from this and move towards what I originally planned on pursuing i.e. data analysis, I was already well versed in ML and DL with python.
If anyone has made a similar transition, it would be great if you could help me understand how do I go about this.

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Does anyone know anything about Point B Consulting?

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@Accenture Strategy 🐠: how much do you travel, realistically? Is the regional model really a thing? In particular thinking about Denver/West Coast offices. Thanks!

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Is it worth going to a small company that is about to IPO soon? What are the pros and cons of doing so?

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Just found out I didn't get an offer for a role I thought I was fairly qualified for and was looking forward to moving. Feeling bummed that I don't have what it takes for the role and company.

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Let's say I can't get a product or marketing job in tech, but I could get in via sales or customer success. Does working in those roles pigeonhole you, or is it easy to switch later? If you take a job as a customer success mgr for ads, or as a partnership mgr for learning solutions for industry X, are you going to get stuck in those products (ads, learning solutions), roles (CS, sales/partnerships), or target industry (X)?

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No recruiters reaches out to me on LinkedIn. I chalk it to mostly because I’m not in Tech, but what am I doing wrong? How can I make my profile more attractive to recruiters?

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From a big 4 Management consulting. Have been invited to apply for Accenture strategy, same level. What is the reputation of the strategy group of Accenture?

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Struggling to find an exit opportunity in Singapore. Been looking for over a year now and the only ones who have shown interest are other consulting firms (looking for an industry exit) (contd..)

Interested in eventually exiting into wellness tech.... what are the best consulting firms to start at?

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Anyone here who made the exit from Big 4/MBB consulting to a VC? If so, I’d love to hear about how the experience is so far. (Not to mention the WLB and comp!) I’m considering a career change but have no one in my network I can go to for insights. Thx! 🙏🏾

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During interviews, how do you talk about the “result” or “impact” of a consulting project you were on? I know how to talk about the problem/recommendation portion of a sample project but the result/impact, I mean, as consultants we don’t see recommendations executed and actually generating results. So how do you talk about it?

Hoping this gets more traction here. Received two offers: 1. Manager role at another big 4 @ 160k. 2nd offer is Senior project manager role in industry @ 190k. Bonus % is about the same. Not sure cont

IF THE JOB REQUIRES MULTIPLE WEEKS OF TRAVEL EACH MONTH DONT TAG IT AS REMOTE IN THE JOB DESCRIPTION!!!

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About to start my first PM job! Any tips to be prepared and ramp up quickly? Books to read, courses to take, etc.. any tips are appreciated! Currently in ops consulting. No tech background.

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Can someone explain what meta verse is to me like a baby? 🧐

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Deloitte vs MBB for F500 strategy roles recruiting (2-3 yrs in consulting)? Do MBBers really have that much more of a leg up?

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For questions as to why you are looking to leave your current firm.. I am looking to move because for some reason I am hand-held a lot and given simpler tasks, so I am getting bored and want more challenging / much more fast paced environment. Also kind of bored because I am on one project for a long time and I want exposure to variety of projects. Is this a fair answer or would I be seen as arrogant? Is there a better way to frame my answer?

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Keep getting feedback that I don’t come off as excited for the role. Not sure how to fix this as I prepare a lot of these interviews and truly am interested in them... any advice?

What kind of resources are useful to prepare for Alixpartners online assessment? Any insights are appreciated. Thanks

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Looking forward to pursuing opportunities at Google Canada. It’d be really appreciated if someone could put in a referral for me. Thank you in advance!

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