I want to leave the big 4 to do social science research. What are my options besides doing a PhD?

Are there any companies/industries that offer MBA tuition reimbursement post-MBA if you did not work for the company pre-MBA?

Taking my shot in tech sales. Consulting was great experience but enjoyed the relationship and BD aspect more and didn’t see myself climbing to partner. Starting in a junior BD Rep role to learn prospecting and earn quota history. Took a big paycut for the potential future earnings as an Account Exec. Did I dun goof? Probably. But I’ll regret it forever if I didn’t take my chance now when I’m still single and young-ish.

What is the general consensus on online I/O psychology programs? I’m looking to pivot into HC consulting and am strongly considering USC’s online MAPP or Harvard Extension School’s I/O Psychology graduate program.

Hi All,
I’m currently a territory manager for a large medical device company. I’m looking to make the move into SaaS still selling to the NHS. Does anyone have any advice or recommendations? I currently like in Wales, UK but understand a lot of these roles are remote first unlike what I do at the moment.

Hi there,
Anyone here into technical Consultancy. I am looking for a suggestion/advise as where does this leads to after years (5-7) of experience. What’s the career ladder onwards?

Hi Guyz, Need advice

I have expertise in Mobile application
development.
I know android ,flutter and react native.
But as I am progressing in my career I get
to know I love doing coding for business
logic rather then Ul part.

So I am planning to learn any backend
technology as well. I am thinking to start
learning nodejs. I just know Javascript
and totally freshie in backend.
Is it good idea to learn any backend.
technology and what technology I should
go for nodejs, dot net or anything else.

I took an in-house gig working with friends late last summer and I am about to get an offer from a biglaw firm for basically my dream position—I am feeling terrible because my current department is understaffed and I like the work, but the biglaw position has huge advantages including remote work and way higher salary. The actual workload will likely be the same. Someone tell me I am not a monster for leaving so soon!!!! Any advice, if you have jumped ship early and don’t want to burn bridges?

Starting to interview at VCs and HFs - any advice? Three years in PE under my belt.

Partners,

My firm is immature in guiding development planning. I have energy to accelerate to the next level of responsibility.

What evidence distinguishes an analyst as ready for the next level?

I have got 6 years of experience and I have done MBA in finance. My last company was a Big 4. They are ready to pay me 9L and I require a 100% increment. will they give me 12 L? Should I accept 9 L?

Okay...here goes: I’m not sure if I just want to leave my firm or private practice altogether? For those of you who have contemplated leaving private practice, how did you finally come to realize that that was really what made sense for you, as opposed to just switching firms?

Hi Fishes,

I am B.tech graduate and currently working in BPO sector in Accenture. I am looking to switch to an IT profile but having zero experience in IT sector. Please suggest how can I switch.

What monetary goal/target are you telling yourself to hit before quitting big law?

I have worked in the demand gen/paid acquisition department for two years and am looking to get involved in brand strategizing (working with marketing agencies, being great at brand voice, creative direction, etc). What’s your go-to resources to learn more about branding? And if you have had similar experience, what’s your journey like?

I’m 30, should I consider joining S& Middle East as Senior Associate in attempt to make Manager and leave? Is it too exhausting? Will I burn out before I get there? And how long to Manager?

Is it easy to switch from operations to broker dealer side specifically sales?

Worth trying to jump from Clearview to MBB for the biopharma exit opps? Or would the exits be similar.

So I’m in industry from big 4, and a colleague with same yoe comes from MBB. High paying tech firm. I think I work harder and produce quality content at speed, but they can hold executive conversations that tend to impress senior stakeholders.

Big 4 produces work horses and MBB produces leaders. Also they could be a work horse too since I don’t have full visibility.

Anyone have similar experiences or do I just suck at executive stakeholder management?

Having one of the worst weeks of my life but my bosses would flip if I used a personal day. Meanwhile in the office I’m getting bitchy emails and attitude per usual. How does one deal / stay sane?

Most exotic name you’ve heard: drop below!

Breakfast food is so much better and energizing at lunch (11:30 - 12:30) than it is early in the morning.

So I’m in industry from big 4, and a colleague with same yoe comes from MBB. High paying tech firm. I think I work harder and produce quality content at speed, but they can hold executive conversations that tend to impress senior stakeholders.

Big 4 produces work horses and MBB produces leaders. Also they could be a work horse too since I don’t have full visibility.

Anyone have similar experiences or do I just suck at executive stakeholder management?

What is the salary range for application development senior analyst in Accenture.

If an otherwise good interview the interviewer says: “I think you have great experience that will help you wherever you go”. Should I be reading into this?

Asking for my husband…

We both think he’s underpaid.

Masters degree in architectural engineering (focus on mechanical)

Works on large job sites doing commissioning and project management as a “commissioning engineer” (large in sq footage and high profile jobs for a large Midwest city)

8 YOE on large projects in the Midwest

He’s making 75K.

Hello All,
Anyone having vacancy in Network Security or willing to refer in your organization? I have 10.08 years of relevant experience and currently working at Coforge, Noida.

Greatly appreciated!

I am trying to increase my cannabis networking bubble! I am a CPA and specialize in audit in the cannabis industry. Would love to connect with all!

Anyone here 40s never married, no kids?

Anyone from Baker Tilly know what happened to the Dallas office and the PIC that was there?

Hello

Is it possible to join MBB as Technical Manager or Consultant without having MBA? If yes, what would be the best way to apply for a position? Please guide

I gave an interview in Accenture and the manager wants me to move to Hyderabad,but I'm comfortable with the Kolkata location. I've cleared two rounds and now the Hyd manager is telling me that if I move to Hyd otherwise they will not proceed with my application any further. Can anyone suggest to me what can be done here?

What would be the salary range for a demand planning specialist in Bay Area?
For someone with 3.5 years work experience and masters degree

Vettel you beauty ❤️

Hi Fishes, I've 2.25 Years of experience in SAP Basis, but I've lost interest in the same due to not receiving proper training, inability to practice on customer's system and shifts. I'm looking forward to go for MBA/changing technology, which one would be a better option? In case of the latter can you guys suggest lucrative technologies which has little/no coding and can definitely give good packages? I've tried changing jobs in Basis for nearly one year and didn't get through. Please help me.

Anyone leave big 4 to pursue a PhD not in accounting (another business field)? Who did you ask for references? Did you find that big 4 experience helped your application?

Real talk- is joining Biogen as a data scientist a smart move, post adu drama and fresh CEO? Afraid that the company will restructure right after I join…

Has anyone left a wire house to go completely hourly fee based, and run your own financial consulting business? Is this a stupid idea or is it feasible?

Looking for recommendations of any good non-finance books to pass some of the downtime at home

Got Amazon career essentials (ACE) assessment to complete for Business Analyst role
To anyone who has experience with it- What kind of work simulation questions should I be expecting?
Is there a way I can prepare for it or any resources one must know of?

Does your company split data science roles into different practices like data & analytics and software engineering? Does this inhibit collaboration & Where does a data engineer fall?

Is cross validation just about using different combinations of data blocks to test and train different predictive models in order to find the best model?

I'm non US citizen and thinking of moving back to EU. My plan is getting remote opportunities across the world and work as a freelancer. My speciality is Data analytics and BI (Qlikview, Tableau). 1) How likely I can get a gig from the US? 2) if a job looking for a remote 2-3 months contract do they care what country I'm in? 3) how can I compete Indian rates as I'm in Europe 60-70$ per hour as a BI consultant is a good rate but I see online rates as low 10$😫?

Anyone made the jump from EY DnA to Bain AAG (or vice versa)? I’m wondering how they stack up across technical capabilities, project mix, WLB, etc.

Any recommended courses or books on customer care/cust success analytics or marketing analytics in general?

What’s everyone’s take on Alteryx?

What are the top sales & marketing metrics that tech companies track? I have an interview for a Data architect role and the data aspect is my strength but need to brush up on the business insight part

What is the best way to handle group financial consolidation in a multinational company?

For those with experience with Apache Superset, please tell me more. Why do you prefer it, which environment does it work best in, pros/cons, and why should I choose it over Tableau/PowerBI?

I have a undergrad finance degree and 5 years of big 3 credit rating agency work experience, what will help me more to get into a SFA role or product role at a tech company, a T15 MBA or a Georgia tech masters in analytics degree?

To all my data engineering friends out there, do you all feel like trash sometimes? Like people dont understand shit about what you do, and clients just want to see some bs ml model/pretty but useless dashboards?

Hello all, I’m a senior studying business and data science. Are there any entry level (2023) data science or SWE positions you recommend for me? I’ve really enjoyed ML and I’m proficient in Python and data science models like regression, decision trees, and k-means clustering etc

Learning cloud architecture right now so apologies if these are obvious questions: Best ways to store video metadata to perform analysis on it? I'm looking at AWS and GCP. Saw that Cassandra would be good for it, but not sure what the GCP equivalent is? But also I'm a bit confused on if Cassandra is just a DB and storage would need to be elsewhere? All help is welcome! I've been spinning my wheels on Google trying to understand

Thoughts on Power BI vs Tableau for analysis and data visualizations?

Has anyone else begun to resent data science?

Hi! Does anyone know what kind of knowledge is needed to crack the Data Scientist interview at Google?

I'm currently working in Marketing Analytics (primarily using SQL and a bit of pyspark). Apart from mastering SQL, I wanted to know from people working at Google what does it take to get there as a Data Scientist? (I'm very interested in Strategy Ops)

I plan to another 6-8 months in preparation and upskilling myself before I even apply.
Any help and guidance is appreciated! Thanks :)

Newish to data analytics. Have some experience in power BI, sql, and R. I wanted to get some exposure to aws and saw the AWS cloud practitioner as an available course at my job. Is this cert worth it? Or should I try one of the more advanced ones ? The data analytics one for example but wasn’t sure if it would be difficult to get through as a beginner. Will it look good on my resume?

In the most unnecessarily complicated phrasing worthy a dissertation, what are you working on this week?