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Got an offer for a sales applications manager role at Cisco and a Strategic AE role at Amazon - both are basically the same pay (130~ base, 220 OTE)
I don’t have any friends at either company so I was curious if anyone has experience and can shed some light on culture/ work life balance to help me make a decision? Thanks for the help guys!
Hi all,
I have a offer from Perficient and joining in 2 months time. Question :
1: how is the company in terms of job security and projects? I work with web analytics
2: How is the hike and work life balance.
3: Attrition rate
4: Hike is good but will it be a safer vet like Accenture Operations?
Need some views from people working there.
Thanks in advance.
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70-80 seems standard
From my experience at a growth fund down market from those guys is that it’s intense. High deal flow in the bootstrapped world regardless of business cycle kept me +80 hours consistently in 2023. Have heard growth buyout is sweatier than the minority stakes funds.
Got it. I should’ve clarified that it’s for ops not investing
I’m an outsider service provider (a lawyer) to some of these. From what I’ve seen, analysts have set things to do but their WLB isn’t as intense (despite needing to be available). Associates have a tough time, they’re needed for everything. VPs and above love what they do and are really good at it so if you can achieve that level then your WLB isn’t quite as taxing, you just need to be able to pull the trigger and make big decisions quickly.
The entire Private Equity industry as a whole is not really known for WLB. What do you do now and what is leading you to consider a job with one of these? These sponsors are some of the most wanted by exiting consultants. They’re highly successful and pay rewardingly.
I work at an MBB so basically just want to maintain or slightly lower my hours per week. I don’t know if I can do a lot more (e.g., 10-20 above). I currently work 55-60
I work at a smaller GE fund than the ones mentioned ($3B AUM). Associates work like 50-60 hours on average outside of deal sprints. It’s pretty sustainable but we’re a heavy sourcing shop and the work doesn’t go away when they are on the road at conferences.