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Hi Fishes, I got an offer from Infosys and my joining date is on March 1st. . Since my current employer didn't accept my resignation as I was in emergency leave, I will need to serve notice period until April 1st. . Will Infosys postpone my Joining date by a month considering this valid reason. Please share your thoughts to take this decision!!! Thank you in Advance!!Infosys
During salary negotiations with Infosys. HR : what is the offer you holding? Me : 40 HR : We would not be able to match that. Me : yes I understand, but you need to compensate me on some other parameters, maybe onsite opportunity. You cannot say since this is Infosys, take 30 or leave. HR : no, the max we can offer is 26. 😸😸
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I wouldn't put too much stock in the "potential to be group cfo in the long run" part of it, but it finance/ops role could be a great place to learn. It all depends on who you are working for. As for the "career killer" part of your question, it sounds like you may have drunk some of the kool-aid that EY has likely poured down you. And that's completely understandable. There really isn't such a thing as a career killer role coming out of audit, unless you took a job as an A/P clerk or something. Those are long-established myths used to fear monger gullible people into staying at a below market salary in their loss-leader practice.
The main thing you have early in your career is the capacity and willingness to learn. Neither of your options are career killers, and neither are guaranteed learning experiences. But they are very likely to be better learning experiences than audit. In any case, you are not going to kill your career by leaving audit--unless you wanted to make partner. But if you were in a position to make partner, you probably wouldn't be making this post.
Thanks for the reply, totally agree on moving out of audit. For the role I would be the first employee and basically learning on my own, not exactly from anyone! I’m a self starter type who learn things independently, so I guess it could work…
By career killer, i mean like possibly being pigeonholed into fund ops roles or finance in PE/VC in the future? I’m kinda noob on funds and the skills their finance function require, not sure how it compares with commercial
I’m not sure how many years of experience you have or what your long term and short term goals are but identifying those could be helpful. You’ll likely work more hours at the tech startup and have fewer people to learn from and rather “figure it out as you go” whereas at pwc you’ll have people above you to learn from. Both have pros and cons, so I would identify short term goals and see which one aligns better. The benefit of going bigger earlier in your career (again, not sure what level you are), is that you can always move to a startup later. But it is much more difficult to move up in company size, not impossible or anything, just harder. They both seem like great opportunities so it more so comes down to personal preference
I’ve had about 4 yoe in audit, long term goal is to acquire the skillsets to eventually sit at cfo of a meaning enterprise, OR go into buyside investments somewhere looking at tech. Both option meet my career goals in some way. I’m not aiming for big corporations since I kinda dislike fitting in with the corporate mould they make out of you… so I look around at smaller enterprises with purposeful visions. Main goal is just to gain the skillsets and exposure, im ok working a little more, and i like learning things on my own.
I’m thinking if the startup thing doesnt go well, i can go back to PA deals ? I kinda think that this opp is rare, not everyday u get see good founding team with large scope role offered. But its a tech FUND, will the skills i gain be transferrable, and where?