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Anyone from EY? Need referral.
Got my exit offer just in time for the new year 🥳🍾
Salary for technical account manager?
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Does anyone know if the same 401k rules apply at EY as Accenture so they will cap the contributions coming for your check say if you hit the yearly limits in August? So if you hit the 22,500 in 23 there is no way to go over for tax issues. Thinking to frontload next year contributions if market is down. EY
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61% utilization as a first year associate. RIP
How often do you change jobs?
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There’s this misconception that compensation fixes problems — it doesn’t.
Ha, the logic applies for any tier. Tier relates to your ability to recruit talent, who your competitors are, and how much a company is willing to spend on your services. You can aim to be T3—doesn’t matter. I’m saying that whatever tier you aim to be I would start by paying above benchmark
1) 100% remote
2) pay above market rates, which means I’m already making money consulting on my own prior to hiring
3) aim for a margin of 30%
#1 for sure. “Base offices” are an anachronism in this day and age IMHO
That would be a 4 person team with principal time and engagement would cost around $1.5M
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Don’t over engineer - have a few partners all part time to start and maybe one person full-time. Land some work with okay margins, but deliver it to the highest quality and start from there. I was at an extremely successful boutique that had funding from the start and leadership strategically held investing in infrastructure or expanding the team until necessary. Within 6 years leadership had an outrageously profitable business and sold
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Easy.. I'd start small, focus on a core offering and develop strong relationships with subs to do ancillary services.
Scope better. I’m so tired of doing extra work which gets billed out of scope and then ultimately gets written off because client doesn’t want to pay it and partners don’t want piss of clients.