In first year at Big 4 advisory firm and assignments are scarce; killing my utilization. Should I look for another job or are newbies given slack? Anyone laid off in first year or been through it?

Recent graduate was laid off, have applied to dozens of jobs and still have been unable to land an offer. I interview well have a strong resume. Very concerned I might not get hired. Any advice, tips or general comments are welcomed.

Hello helpful people,
I have recently been laid off with my current company as company is closing its operation and looking for new role. So, if you know or have any opportunities related to junior mechanical engineer role in Canada, please let me know. I have close to 2 years experience working as manufacturing and quality engineer in manufacturing industries.
Thanks in advance.

Do Big 4 internal services (i.e. Corp Finance, HR, Recruiting) have clients like the typical business lines too? I’m looking to get out of control testing and into something with somewhat better hours

What salary range can I reasonably request with 4 yrs exp in accounting (half in big 4) and cpa?

Anyone have an app or Excel spreadsheet they use to keep track of utilization? We just switched systems and our new system doesn’t give us a real time balance of our utilization rate (cont)

Anyone hiring for a remote staff accountant position in industry? 1 YOE in audit at a Big 4.

My ultimate aim to is grow my career in Big 4 in Middle East. I’m a tax consultant with 3 years of experience in tax compliance. To increase the weightage of my CV and opportunities, I’m planning to pursue Enrolled Agent (EA) course. Am I on the right path ? Suggestions and opinions are most welcome!

Waze has been tried and true. Gets me there, warnings are reliable and routing around jams is wonderful. Just won’t go anywhere without it. Often zoom on routes my kids are taking just to be sure they are safe. Great app.

Why would I be denied access to replies on a post that was originated by me? I haven’t seen this b4.
thx in advance

Did they kick big 4 out yet?

I love the company I work at but they are forcing everyone to return to office after two years working fully remote and the most successful eight quarters the company has had in years. People are leaving left and right forcing me and other team members to pick up the slack. For many reasons I do not want to return to office and they are standing firm on their policy. It has forced me to consider other opportunities. Anyone have any recommendations on remote opportunities?

At my new job, all of my coworkers are from big 4 except me and I feel intimated because I feel like im not the same pace as them

Anyone here who made the jump to MBB from a B4 tech/digital or swe background? Would love to pick your brain on the process! 🙂

About to start negotiating for salary at one of the big 4, I feel so bad about it but I was told not to sell myself short. Any advise?

Tips for helping kids stay on task during zoom? Our little class (9 kids) has been doing zoom circle times twice a week but I noticed they are really distracted. Also every meeting a kid leave...

I am at a Pharmaceutical Tech startup and we are hiring!

We are looking for Product Mgrs who have 4+ years of exp in client facing roles where you gather requirements, design solutions, work with developers to build the solution, test the solution end-to-end, and deliver to the client. The work itself is very similar to what we do in consulting but you don't have to worry about firm activities, utilization, etc.

Compensation is highly competitive

DM a link to your resume if you are interested

What are expected utilization goal at each level ? I have been at two levels in deloitte and I saw

Consultant: 95%
Senior Consultant: 90%

Can someone add on top and bottom of this chart ?

Anyone know of any senior strategy openings? Just got laid off and would greatly appreciate any leads.

Client buys property with wife, with intentions for it being an investment property (short term rentals) for four family members. Lender doesn’t allow the transfer to the LLC. I’m thinking a good solution is to rent the property to the LLC and have the LLC open the short term rental accounts. Thoughts or suggestions on this scenario?

When (if at all really) do you think Salesforce will start to lose relevancy?

Moving out of Houston and selling the following furniture. All in as new condition. Please let me know if you or someone you know is interested and I can provide more deets / pictures. Pick up from 77027.

1. Queen bed frame
2. Queen gel mattress
3. Dining table chair set of 2
4. Home office 47” table
5. Office chair
6. Leather couch
7. Bean bags

From a brand/“prestige” standpoint, does Parthenon set you up well for M7? How about H/S/W? Does anyone from P know people who have gone to any of those schools?

Is it normal to have 15+ assignments everyday? Granted, im a little behind but thats because there are always so many assignments to do.

How do you calculate jewelries and foreign property in your net worth calculation? For clarity, I own a house in US and in India. Mint gets the dynamic net worth of the US property from Zillow but how do I include India property? Also, jewelries are 22K gold ornaments and diamond studded 14k/18k ornaments?

From a UX Director... “Design is everything. You’re nothing without design.” Excuse me?

When companies make offers do they expect a negotiation or that you will accept as is. I like the offer but at the same time I would like the base to be $5k higher, move start date by a week further and ask for Christmas week off although starting late October. Reasonable??

Is there bullying in your agency? How bad is it really? Are people afraid to speak up? Tell us here.

Busy season over, done with CPA, looking for a new challenge. Thinking maybe GMAT, but any ideas?

Recent Marriott promotion ended on the 20th, no new ones announced, are they holding off q3 promotions until the 18th when both programs officially become one?

Is sleep and breastfeeding mutually exclusive? Are there any moms who successfully breast feed for more than 6 months while baby slept through the night from the beginning? Both are impotent to me but if only one can be achieved I want to reset my expectations.

Hi- New here! I am looking for new opportunities in PV- I have my PharmD and I have 1 year experience in pharmacovigilance. I definitely low-balled myself with my salary for my current role but I wanted the experience. Looking for guidance on salary ranges for someone with my background and potential opportunities for career growth!

Any advice for general radahn

Okay so listen I interviewed for a company on Monday which I sent the recruiter a thank you email Tuesday morning.

She told me I would hear back yesterday or today but I’m kinda impatient. 😭

Do I give her until EOD 👀

So here is my doubt .. I have resigned recently from cognizant and I'm serving notice now.. I have 3 offers now.. and few others are in pipeline.. and I'm bit worried about how you say NO to the employers who have selected you.. and the good offers are coming only in the last 10days of serving notice.

Did Paul Hastings first years start yet?

Do you guys think that with the current environment in Europe, data engineer jobs for consulting companies will safe? especially for smaller companies.

Aiming to transition from Finance to Analytics Consulting (think BCG Gamma): Would you recommend getting a Master’s degree in Business Analytics or Data Science? Undergraduate degree was also Finance and no prior programming experience.

Thank you

What’s everyone’s thoughts about C3 AI from a product/company stance/market leadership perspective? Thinking about making the jump there from DS Consulting after getting an offer....

Is alteryx core certification hard? Been using alteryx for a while and just refreshed my knowledge of the tools covered on the exam.

I want to write a program that takes in several matplot line graphs and detects which ones have similar "shapes" (e.g. graphs showing "up-down-up" patterns will be in a group, "down-up" in another group).

Any advice on how to start?

I have a reinforcement ML algorithm that reads historical data for a stock and tries to make a prediction on its future price. The training data is 20 years of daily indicators and the evaluation is 1 year while the testing data is also 1 year. My problem is that it takes the algorithm almost 12 hrs to make one full run through a training session on my MacBook. I also tried with google colab pro using their gpus and tpus but they’re only slightly faster. Is there any way to speed this up?

Anyone have any ideas about Boston’s Applied Data Analytics MS program? What are the placements like?

Go to Tableau or Periscope now. You will be rich.

Has anyone reapplied to Georgia Tech to switch from OMSA to OMSCS? I’d like to know if some of the courses I’ve taken while doing the OMSA could transfer over.

Any 🐠 with a good idea of personal/side analytics projects to pad your resume? Something that integrates backend + front end?

I am helping a couple of non-technical entrepreneurial friends running a startup understand and identify data science opportunities with their clients. Is there an online course or YouTube channel that you would recommend on helping sales executives/leaders learn the basic ideas & concepts of data science?

Has anyone interviewed with Disney recently - specifically Disney Plus? I’m curious about the org, culture, & compensation

Is SAS institute still competitive? Would you or certain types of companies still use any of their software for particular analysis? Or are open source and other cloud providers making them less relevant?

Have been considering joining their sales team, though is this risky given their competitive position and the economy?

Did it take a while for anyone else to hear back from Gamma/Platinion after the resume drop? It's been 3 months since I applied to a role Platinion and a month for a Gamma role, both data engineering

What's your take on the importance of having PCEP, PCAP and PCPP python certifications for Data Science consultancy? I found that PCEP and PCAP can ensure code quality, but want to hear other opinions on this. TIA.

By what multiple did you improve (or lose) your skills year over year though your career? Wholly subjective, of course.

Format example:
Yr 0-1: x5 (first year learned way way more than from interning or whatever before)
Yr 1-2: x3.2 (still learned a ton, worth >3 of me from year before)
Yr 2-3: x1.2 (learned a little)
Yr 3-4: x0.6 (burnt out, worth like half of year prior)
etc

FTE only, internships don't count